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One could make a similar argument about humans--our brains are just physical systems running according to physical laws, after all. No...

In a very, very restricted domain, one can argue this, yes. I actually have no problem with the general idea that all "intelligence"...

See the bolded additions I made above to your claims. They make a huge difference. The claim in the hype is AGI--artificial general...

Yes, we do. That simply is not the case. All of those things are currently being done and hallucinations not only persist, there is some...

The person trying to make the next version safer than the previous version is who cares. This is the major problem with the whole being...

Fair enough. This I agree is a major issue.

You're missing the point. What I was describing was not "calling bullshit" based on reading a book report written from Cliff's Notes...

If "AGI" in the form of LLMs is a threat, I don't think it's because it understands anything. I think it's because there will be humans...

As anyone who has written a book report for school based on Cliff's Notes can tell you, being able to produce plausible-sounding text on...

Yes, it is clear: it doesn't understand things, not even a little bit. LLMs only find patterns - what it was programmed for - and...

I think this is a vast overstatement. It "knows" what's in its training data. But its training data still falls far, far short of...

A creature can have agency, in the sense that its actions have clear and highly non-random relationships to its circumstances and to...

We don’t know if humans have agency. We have trouble defining and reliably measuring intelligence in humans. One thing that I think is...

Sure they are: they're computer programs. A computer program is a set of specific instructions on how to process information. But of...

In the sense that it produces arrangements of words that are not in its training data, sure. But the only information it has as input...