[TapamN]

An LLM does have a model of reality. An LLM's reality is built on the experiences (words) it's been feed.

Humans are similar. A human's reality is built on the experiences (senses) it's been feed. There definitely are several major differences, the obvious one being that we have a different sensory input than an LLM, but there are others, like human's having a instinctual base model of reality, shaped by the effects of natural selection over our ancestors.

Just like an LLM can't tell if the reality it's been fed actually corresponds to the "truer" outside reality (you could feed an LLM lies like the sky is plaid in such a way that it would report that it's true), a human can't tell if the reality it's been fed actually corresponds to a "truer" outside reality (humans could be feed lies like we are in true reality, when we're actually all NPCs in a video game for a higher level).

The LLM can't tell if it's internal reality matches an outside reality, and humans can't tell if their internal reality matches an outside reality, because both only have the input they've received to go on, and can't tell if it's problematic or it's incomplete.

[gibsonf1]

Words are not reality, they are just data serialized from human world experience, without reference to the underlying meaning of those words. An LLM is unable to build the conceptual space-time model that the words reference, thus it has no understanding whatsoever of the meaning of those words. The evidence for this is everywhere in the "hallucinations" of LLM. It just statistics on words, and that gets you nowhere to understanding the meaning of words, that is conceptual awareness of matter through space-time.

[astrange]

This is a reverse anthropic fallacy. It may be true of a base model (though it probably isn't), but it isn't true of a production LLM system, because the LLM companies have evals and testing systems and such things, so they don't release models that clearly fail to understand things.

You're basically saying that no computer program can work, because if you randomly generate a computer program then most of them don't work.

[gibsonf1]

Not at all. I'm saying there is a difference between statistics about word data and working with space-time data and concepts that classify space-time. We do the latter https://graphmetrix.com/trinpod-server