>LLMs are neither smart nor stupid.

by that reasoning then neither are there smart or stupid designs, questions, answers, or any of the millions of things that were described as smart or stupid, that did not possess any brain to actually be smart or stupid long before LLMs showed up.

The analogical process implied in many common English usages means that describing an LLM as smart or stupid is perfectly reasonable.

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bryanrasmussen an hour ago | parent [-]

I'll just note here that sure, there are people who go around thinking that LLMs are actually endowed with the capacity to reason, but generally I find the people who think this do not know what an LLM and will just use the name "ChatGPT"

	▲	SR2Z 15 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		What would it take for you to say that an LLM can reason? The completions they provide are generally internally consistent. We're at the point where they can produce proofs that eluded human mathematicians for centuries. VLMs and self driving cars can handle ambiguity and run safely in a variety of situations. If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck maybe it just makes sense to call it a duck and put off the philosophy for when it might make a difference.