The part I push back on is the confidence with which people claim these LLMs “are definitely not intelligent / thinking”. We can’t even define clearly what hum

The part I push back on is the confidence with which people claim these LLMs “are definitely not intelligent / thinking”. We can’t even define clearly what human thinking is, yet so many folks claim “nope, LLMs are just pattern matching. Wake me up when it actually has a thought.” And there are two points to make on that: the first is again, we can’t even explain our own thoughts or rational thinking. And second, I’ve yet to see how it even matters . The output of GPT-4, for example, is pretty much on point with your average person on certain topics. Whether or not it’s “truly thinking” under the hood is irrelevant, imo, if it gives a really good illusion of it.