LLMs are not thinking for themselves, they are just allowing for the interrogation of training data based on a natural language query model.
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Is that not what our brains do as well?
The Vatican released an official statement on AI recently. One of the more thoughtful ethical and theological pieces on the subject. One of the things it discusses is the misuse of anthropomorphic terms like "learning" in this context because we dont actually mean the same thing as we do when we refer to human learnjng.
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You heretic. Next you’re going to tell me my dog is not actually thinking all the thoughts I assign to her 🚁😂