Yves here. We linked to the paper by Apple scientists which gave a pretty devastating blow to the idea that large language models like ChatGPT could be considered to engage in “thinking”. Tom Neuburger provides a longer-form treatment below. To be clear, these findings do not necessarily mean that some other class of AI model won’t be able to engage in processes that meets the bar for “reasoning”. But the big bucks have been chasing “tool of all trades, master of none” LLMs, which respond to queries in conversational form and hence so what amounts to faking thinking.

By Thomas Neuburger. Originally published at God’s Spies

AI can’t solve a problem that hasn’t been previously solved by a human.
—Arnaud Bertrand

A lot can be said about AI, but there are few bottom lines. Consider these my last words on the subject itself. (About its misuse by the national security

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