when someone gets very picky about anthropomorphising LLMs, I start to think that the extent of their subject knowledge is what they've read in the news ChatGP

when someone gets very picky about anthropomorphising LLMs, I start to think that the extent of their subject knowledge is what they've read in the news ChatGPT (or the gpt model beneath it) is a special type of matrix transformation on top of an extremely complex neural net the operation of a neural net may not be "thinking", but it is something very akin to thinking, modelled on thinking, that in this circumstance has the same input/output model as thinking. and yet strangely people call it thinking!