No, they do not. No LLM is ever going to be self aware. It's a system that is trained, that only does what you build into. If you run an LLM for 10 years it's

No, they do not. No LLM is ever going to be self aware. It's a system that is trained, that only does what you build into. If you run an LLM for 10 years it's not going to "learn" anything new. The whole industry needs to quit with the emergent thinking, reasoning, hallucination anthropomorphizing. We have an amazing set of tools in LLM's, that have the potential to unlock another massive upswing in productivity, but the hype and snake oil are getting old.