A thought after reading these many great responses: We keep hearing how programs like ChatGPT are going to "rule the earth" or whatever, that they are smart. T

A thought after reading these many great responses: We keep hearing how programs like ChatGPT are going to "rule the earth" or whatever, that they are smart. They are not. They are only "stochastic parrots" -- they repeat what they were taught, albeit in an elegant and sometimes accurate fashion. What's missing? What's missing is apparent in many of the replies here: embodiment. That which we get for being humans doing thinking. To me, that means something like "in the moment" - you have these flash ideas, sometimes while driving, sometimes in the shower or on long walks (read: wherever it's borderline impossible to record the ideas) or even in that fog just before being fully awake (hint: when you realize you're onto something an not fully awake - you can train yourself for that - do not open your eyes until you have fully rehearsed the idea), the very process of changing thoughts in order to get the new idea recorded changes the moment; the moment of invention is gone, even if some broad sketch of the idea remains. The embodiment of that idea is gone. Bots will need zillions more transistors to come even close to that capability. The process of letting your subconscious solve problems has been explained by David Gelertner in his book _The Must In The Machine_ as a process where the conscious mind, and its censors (logic circuits), are somehow inactivated, which allows the subconscious to play. Wires connect and some kind of aha! moment occurs.