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LLMs don't think, and planes don't fly.
by machinationu 9mo ago
LLMs don't think, and planes don't fly.
- noosphr 9mo agoLLMs think in the same way submarines swim.
- nkmnz 9mo agoSo... they do think? Or what is your position? Submarines obviously do swim, otherwise they'd either float or sink.
- noosphr 9mo agoYes, submarines swim just like how people sail the breaststroke.
- jazzyjackson 9mo agoIt's an old saying. The ability for submarines to move through water has nothing to do with swimming, and AIs ability to do generate content has nothing to do with thinking.
- fenomas 9mo agoUh, kind of the opposite :D The quote (from Dijkstra) is that asking whether machines think is as uninteresting as asking whether submarines swim. He's not saying machines don't think, he's saying it's a pointless thing to argue about - an opinion about whether AIs think is an opinion about word usage, not about AIs.