[krageon]

The reason people are so excited about it is because they see it work (yes, this includes whatever edge case you came up with five seconds ago - they can think too). No amount of theorised "oh they just do this thing and they don't have Qualia" is going to change reality: The model does something that people find use in.

[karmasimida]

Agree. What is 'thinking' anyway. Maybe humans are autogressive next token predictors as well, thinking is just our way of saying sampling.