[atleastoptimal]

What LLM’s can do now, 99.999% of people 3 years ago would say would only be possible with “thinking”. To claim that LLM’s aren’t thinking is sensible if your definition of thinking is inextricably linked to the chemical processes that occur in human brains, but then it ceases to be a useful definition with respect to evaluating a system’s ability to process information, form connections, and reason via abstraction. It is objectively true that LLM’s can do the latter things.

[supern0va]

Yeah, I have to admit to finding it somewhat ironic that some individuals accuse the "pro AI" folks of magical thinking, when it seems that escalating levels of magical thinking are being used by the "anti" crowd to suggest that the models can never achieve something akin to human intelligence (particularly in light of the fact that they have on certain dimensions done exactly that).

It's pretty clear that there are significant differences between their intelligence and human intelligence. But that doesn't mean there isn't some sort of intelligence here.