Comment by greekrich92
1 day ago
Denial of an objective reality is a symptom shared by various strands of bad thinking our current era.
LLMs do not think. That's reality.
1 day ago
Denial of an objective reality is a symptom shared by various strands of bad thinking our current era.
LLMs do not think. That's reality.
"think" is not sufficiently defined to assign an objective truth value to that statement.
What could an AI do that would convince you that it is able to think?
Win a (properly conducted) Turing test
AI or an LLM? LLMs are matrix multiplication word guessing machines, so nothing. AI doesn't exist yet.
That's an interesting difference to make. You are defining an AI based on a result (that it displays intelligence) yet dismissing another thing based on method (how it works). By that logic it would have to work by a method which you already define as intelligent in order to display intelligence. Isn't that circular?
Let's remove AI or LLM from this question and ask if there is anything any non-biological system could do to convince you that it was thinking?
Nobody knows what thinking is. A real human brain can be simulated with matrix multiplications.