what's actually happening is all your life you've been told by experience if something can talk to you is that it must be somewhat intelligent.

Now you get can't around that this might not be the case.

You're like that beetle going extinct mating with beer bottles.

https://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2013/06/19/193493225/t...

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ACCount37 6 days ago | parent [-]

"What's actually happening" is all your life you've been told that human intelligence is magical and special and unique. And now it turns out that it isn't. Cue the coping.

We've already found that LLMs implement the very same type of abstract thinking as humans do. Even with mechanistic interpretability being in the gutters, you can probe LLMs and find some of the concepts they think in.

But, of course, denying that is much less uncomfortable than the alternative. Another one falls victim to AI effect.

	▲	hcs 6 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		> "What's actually happening" is all your life you've been told that human intelligence is magical and special and unique. And now it turns out that it isn't. Cue the coping. People have been arguing this is not the case for at least hundreds of years.
	▲	johnnienaked 6 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Considering we don't understand consciousness at ALL or how humans think, you might want to backtrack your claims a bit. Any abstraction you're noticing in an LLM is likely just a plagiarized one