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by naasking 770 days ago
> Let's not treat that LLM as some magic that resembles our mind,it's just another program that produces sentences that happens to make sense.

"That happen to make sense" is hiding a lot of magic. It would be statistically impossible to make as much sense as LLMs do in response to prompts if it did not actually make semantic distinctions. If it makes semantic distinctions, then it does resemble the human mind in at least one way.