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You're making my point for me. My calculator doesn't has a conception of numbers or math. It can only do arithmetic algorithms that it was programmed to do. It is a regurgitation machine. GPTs are similar. They can tell you that the sky is blue and they can tell you why the sky is blue, but they can't translate that to a hypothesis about how the wavelengths of light also influence the properties of lasers. If they've…
My point was that your calculator (and LLMs) is useful despite not having the same internal representation of things as yours.
I never said that either GPTs or calculators are useless.