Thinking/intelligence is like magic, to use Dennett's analogy. Any time a machine can do it, it becomes engineering. It's just a bag of tricks. The circle of true thinking/intelligence is an ever shrinking bag of tricks that only carbon-based minds produced through sexual intercourse can do. In fact I'm surprised they call test tube babies intelligent. Do they have souls?
daenney•10m ago
No. They do not.
dist-epoch•4m ago
Interesting. That means programming doesn't require thinking, since models program very well.
Ekaros•2m ago
Well most of the programming is pattern matching. And might be seen as novel for those who have not done it before, but could well been done a lot previously.
fragmede•7m ago
Philosophers can spill all the ink they want to define "think" and whether machines can do it or not. Given some input, the machine takes some time, and then comes up with some output. Coloquially, the machine is thinking during that time. This has been true since there have been computers and long before LLMs. Now that computers can generate essays about anything, maybe it becomes a question that people feel is important to answer for their day to day life, but I doubt it.
mapehe•53m ago
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