Connectionists: Can LLMs think?

[Gary Marcus]

I do not. I do say it hallucinates as a shorthand, but hasten to clarify. It gloms on to different clusters of text. That is all.

> Oddly, even its critics talk about it as if it’s a box of discrete and countable beliefs and desires that you can fish items out of by asking simple questions, despite decades of debate around eliminative materialism, folk psychology and so on. Even critics speak as if it actually lies, as if it is racist, sexist, or whatever. 
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