Paul Graham on LLMs 'Thinking'

3 points | by fooker an hour ago

3 comments

  • SamInTheShell 38 minutes ago

    It’s still not thinking just because we call the reasoning texts “thoughts”. To imply otherwise in the direction of these models truly “thinking” is just a failure to understand the technology.

      kraken_cult 34 minutes ago

      If you can convince a sufficient number of people of something does it become true?

        kdkdkwkdkekdje 16 minutes ago

        It does not. But it does make the world that little bit more annoying, like whenever someone posts anything about AI these days there’s that select few that love to pose those absurd “okay but we’re just electrical impulses too, how can we be sure LLMs aren’t actually conscious and alive too?” “”””philosophical”””” questions.

        Things like these make my blood boil for how unserious and completely off-the-wall stupid they are.

        Hell, someone the other day equated a plane to a bird because both can fly… this is the type of thing we ought to expect from children just learning what philosophy is. Not adults.