[qsera]

>“predict the next token” is not a useful way

That is the exact thing to say because that is exactly what it does, despite how it does so.

It is not useful to say it if you are an AI-shill though. You bought up AI-hater, so I think I am entitled to bring up AI-shills.

[vasco]

My neurons are also just passing electric signals back and forward and exchanging water and salts with the rest of my body.

[qsera]

> just passing electric signals back and forward

Ok, feel free to call yourselves a toaster, I don't mind!

[vasco]

What, reductionism only works when you do it?

[qsera]

I didn't

[stephenr]

I mean that's really just a comparison to how silicon circuits work though isn't it.

"Thinking rocks" vs "thinking meat sacks" isn't much of a distinction really.

Conversely if you approach conversations the same way an LLM does and just repeat what you've heard other people say a lot without actually knowing what it means then you're also likely to be compared to a feathery chatterbox.