[leptons]

"crunch through half a terabyte of weights" isn't thinking. Following grammatical rules to produce a readable sentence isn't thought, it's statistics, and whether that sentence is factual or foolish isn't something the LLM cares about. If LLMs didn't so constantly produce garbage, I might agree with you more.

[chpatrick]

They don't follow "grammatical rules", they process inputs with an incredibly large neural net. It's like saying humans aren't really thinking because their brains are made of meat.