Do the thinking models think?
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Do the thinking models think?
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#4Thinking/intelligence is like magic, to use Dennett's analogy. Any time a machine can do it, it becomes engineering. It's just a bag of tricks. The circle of true thinking/intelligence is an ever shrinking bag of tricks that only carbon-based minds produced through sexual intercourse can do. In fact I'm surprised they call test tube babies intelligent. Do they have souls?
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#5No. They do not.
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#6Philosophers can spill all the ink they want to define "think" and whether machines can do it or not. Given some input, the machine takes some time, and then comes up with some output. Coloquially, the machine is thinking during that time. This has been true since there have been computers and long before LLMs. Now that computers can generate essays about anything, maybe it becomes a question that people feel is important to answer for their day to day life, but I doubt it.
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#7https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
this is funny and true :)
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#8No. They do not.
Interesting. That means programming doesn't require thinking, since models program very well.
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#10Inference means synthesizing new facts from facts already known. A large language model only knows facts about language elements in its training corpus, therefore any reasoning based on such a model can only ever derive facts about language.