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by fdsjgfklsfd 481 days ago
You don't think LLMs are thinking? You don't think they are approaching human levels of intelligence? What part of human cognition don't we understand?
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fdsjgfklsfd says>You don't think LLMs are thinking? You don't think they are approaching human levels of intelligence? What part of human cognition don't we understand?

Ans. No, no and the entirety of human cognition.

ChatGPT et al contain collections of words. When prompted they generate word sequences found in known word sources. That's all. They don't observe or reason about the world. They don't even reason about words. They merely append the most likely next word to a sequence of words.