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TBH I hate these kinds of articles, because they usually always say the same thing in a way that I feel is wholly unconvincing. E.g. they say "all an LLM does is XYZ, but that's not really thinking", but then they don't make any cogent arguments about why that's not "really thinking" beyond basically just "vibes". As another commenter noted, presumably our neurons are capable of thought, and in many ways they're just "counting votes" as well.

FWIW I don't think LLMs are "thinking", but that's because as I've used them more and I run into more of the very specific types of errors, hallucinations and constraints that LLMs make, I get the stronger sense that they're really more just "pattern matching" in a way that's very different from human brains that don't have the same limitations. But that said, even my thought here is more of a feeling I get when using LLMs, and that feeling is certainly no more worthy of a blog post than I think this article is.