[mrybczyn]

A fantastic view on the nature of inference and the physical world! What I appreciate most about our LLM adventures in the past 5 years, is that it's finally:

1. Plausible to discuss, and find hints of what "AI" might mean - ("AGI" or "Strong AI").

2. Dig up all those crusty and dusty notions of philosophers long dead, and some nerding out reads from my teenage years. And try to apply them to an interesting system to study empirically, instead of just humanistic pondering.

3. Same with psychology! Now that our pattern matching systems are starting to pass various turing tests, what does that mean for "sentience" and "sapience" and should we all become armchair psychologists as we teach our systems to understand and act in the world? Recall the first part of Oddyssey 2010; where the AI researcher is more of a child psychologist...

Lastly - LLMs and "glimpses of AI" are something new! Not the same old same old recycled tech and popculture. Truly something new under the sun. Good times.