> Despite what people keep saying about "it's just an LLM!", it should be clear to people that language is a human abstraction for meaning, and clearly GPT-4+ c

> Despite what people keep saying about "it's just an LLM!", it should be clear to people that language is a human abstraction for meaning, and clearly GPT-4+ can produce pretty meaningful results in the language department. Yes -- it produces results meaningful to us, or we infer meaning from the results because our brains use the best model they have, inferring intelligence and meaning from language. But the language comes from data sets of human-produced material, not from the LLM's imagined intelligence or consciousness.