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Question for those who believe LLMs aren't intelligent and are merely statistical word predictors: how do you reconcile such achievements with that point of view?

(To be clear: I'm not agreeing or disagreeing. I sometimes feel the same too. I'm just curious how others reconcile these.)

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Those things aren't mutually exclusive. They are demonstrably statistical token predictors (go examine an open source implementation) and they clearly exhibit intelligence.

It doesn't matter if you use a car or go there walking. If your goal is cave exploration, the tools are irrelevant.

But in this specific case AI actually explored the cave for you. Comparing it to car getting you to the cave is really bad comparison.


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