[mjburgess]

This entire paper is written as a disproof of the distributional hypothesis. If you want to understand why it's a profoundly unhelpful pseudoscientific idea, this paper is a good start.

The test for a capacity C in a system1 has nothing to do with proxy measures of that capacity in system2.

The capacity for an oven to cook food may be measured by how much smoke it lets of when burning -- but no amount of "smoke" establishes that a dry ice machine can cook.

This type of "engineering thinking" is pseudoscience.

[fiso64]

>The capacity for an oven to cook food may be measured by how much smoke it lets of when burning -- but no amount of "smoke" establishes that a dry ice machine can cook.

You seem to be talking past me, as nowhere did I claim that LLMs are intelligent. That's the point – Unlike you I do not claim to be able to prove or disprove this. I argue that your comment is the one that is pseudoscientific because you didn't provide (even a semblance of) a rigorous definition of intelligence.