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Hi, just because a software tells you it’s “reasoning” or “thinking” doesn’t mean it actually is. You won’t believe this but programmers can make software lie about what it does. Maybe programmers need more guardrails.

Btw here’s a good deep dive into how LLMs actually work (and how they don’t, aka no thinking or reasoning going on): www.0xkato.xyz/how-llms-act...

I never understand these arguments. How does this prove it's not reasoning? I can tell from using LLMs, if they can reason, they can't do it very well. But I never get how explaining the algorithm proves it can't think.

No Animal brain runs on code. A computer chip has a decent number of connections nowhere near as many as a brain, but what’s happening in a computer chip is driven by software which is nothing like an organic brain. A brain takes in data directly and reacts to it without any set of instructions.

Without the ability to process subtle data humans process constantly AI can’t work like an organic brain. From when we’re born we use senses to gather data. Without the ability to know what chicken tastes like, they’ll never perceive things as we do. They can’t experience the discomfort of hunger.

Note that how tokens emerge from the internal vector space gets into a weird place where unless you need hard science We are very quickly hitting a hard research wall where scaling won't get folks where they want. But capitalist have this brain poisoning that infinite money makes things happen.