I'm starting to wonder if any of you even know how that shit even works internally, or if you just take what the hype media says at face value. It literally has one purpose and one purpose alone: Determine what the next word is going to be by calculating the probability which word will come after the next. That's it. All it does is try to string a convincing sentence using probabilities. It does not and cannot understand context.

The underlying tech is really cool but a lot of people are grotesquely overselling its capabilities. Not to say a neural network can't eventually obtain consciousness (because ultimately our brains are a union of a bunch of little neural networks working together for a common goal) but it sure as hell isn't going to be an LLM. That's what I meant by sophistry, they're not engaging with the facts, just some nebulous ideal.