The post to which you replied states:
Anthropomorphing[sic] seems to be in an overdose mode with
"thinking / thoughts", "mind" etc., scattered everywhere.
Nothing with any of the LLMs outputs so far suggests that
there is anything even close enough to a mind or a thought
or anything really outside of vanity.
This is supported by reasonable interpretation of the cited article.
Considering the two following statements made in the reply:
I'm one of the authors.
And
These papers are jointly 150 pages and are quite
technically dense, so it's very understandable that most
commenters here are focusing on the non-technical blog post.
The onus of clarifying the article's assertions:
Knowing how models like Claude *think* ...
And
Claude sometimes thinks in a conceptual space that is
shared between languages, suggesting it has a kind of
universal “language of thought.”
As it pertains to anthropomorphizing an algorithm (a.k.a. stating it "thinks") is on the author(s).
Considering the two following statements made in the reply:
And The onus of clarifying the article's assertions: And As it pertains to anthropomorphizing an algorithm (a.k.a. stating it "thinks") is on the author(s).