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LLMs don't think, and planes don't fly.
by machinationu 11mo ago
LLMs don't think, and planes don't fly.
- noosphr 11mo agoLLMs think in the same way submarines swim.
- nkmnz 11mo agoSo... they do think? Or what is your position? Submarines obviously do swim, otherwise they'd either float or sink.
- noosphr 11mo agoYes, submarines swim just like how people sail the breaststroke.
- jazzyjackson 11mo 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 11mo 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.