[garlic_enjoyer]

For papers that make grand claims, they usually have poignant limitations. In this paper, it's clear that the conclusion is extrapolated from a small set of observable information. That's usually the recipe for poor conclusions, and they are up front about where their findings sit.

That's not to say these findings aren't valuable though. Their blog post summary is just a bit more hype inducing than the underlying paper.

The way I feel about this is that the emergent properties of LLMs seem to reflect our own human faculties. Whether that's because we built them in our image or whether this is a common mode of consciousness is definitely outside the scope of this paper.