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The LLMentalist Effect (2023)

235 points · 309 comments · jalev

  1. NinjaTrance · · focus · HN ↗
    LLMs may not think, but they do reason.

    I say that because the word "reason" originates from the Latin word "ratio," which means "calculation".

    LLMs do calculations to produce their answers -- thus, they reason.

    1. pixl97 · · focus · HN ↗
      Honestly the word think is so poorly defined it cannot be used with any scientific rigor and is rather useless without a dissertation being posed with it on what you actually mean by that. Intelligence really needs one too.
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