Is it really baseless? I'd say it depends on your theory of mind and is a serious question which generates interesting discussion. Myself I don't consider "thi

Is it really baseless? I'd say it depends on your theory of mind and is a serious question which generates interesting discussion. Myself I don't consider "think" an appropriate term, since the super-Markov-chain types of LLM right now seem to miss out on important aspects of cognition, particularly synthesis of two disparate ideas. It's hard to test this since you need to ask it about things which aren't already discussed in its corpus, but even GPT-4 tends to disappoint me when I ask it weird questions that have straightforward answers but probably aren't written about much. As an example, I asked how I could go about obtaining a large quantity of animal skulls cheaply. It directed me to taxidermists and specialists dealing in bones of exotic animals, whereas it could be much easier to go to an abbatoir, or even buy whole animals (since the exotic ones are so expensive).