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Breaking down in -30C temperatures is also human failure mode, but doesen't make cars human. They both exhibit the exact same behavior (not moving), but are fun

• ACCount37 11mo ago
  The similarities go quite a bit deeper than that. Both rely on a certain metabolic process to be able to move. Both function in a narrow temperature range, and fail outside it. Both have a homeostatic process that attempts to keep them in that temperature range. Both rely on chemical energy, oxidizing stored hydrocarbons to extract power from them, and both take in O2-rich air, and emit air enriched in CO2 and water vapor. So, yes, the cars aren't humans. But they sure implement quite a few of the same things as humans do - despite being made out of very different parts. LLMs of today? They implement abstract thinking the same way cars implement aerobic metabolism. A nonhuman implementation, but one that does a great many of the same things.