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A non-anthropomorphized view of LLMs

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Kim_Bruning ◴[] No.44485337[source]
Has anyone asked an actual Ethologist or Neurophysiologist what they think?

People keep debating like the only two options are "it's a machine" or "it's a human being", while in fact the majority of intelligent entities on earth are neither.

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1. szvsw ◴[] No.44485434[source]
Yeah, I think I’m with you if you ultimately mean to say something like this:

“the labels are meaningless… we just have collections of complex systems that demonstrate various behaviors and properties, some in common with other systems, some behaviors that are unique to that system, sometimes through common mechanistic explanations with other systems, sometimes through wildly different mechanistic explanations, but regardless they seem to demonstrate x/y/z, and it’s useful to ask, why, how, and what the implications are of it appearing to demonstrating those properties, with both an eye towards viewing it independently of its mechanism and in light of its mechanism.”