What more are human brains than piles of wet meat?
It's not an argument - it's a dismissal. It's boneheaded refusal to think on the matter in any depth, or consider any of the implications.
The main reason to say "LLMs are just next token predictions" is to stop thinking about all the inconvenient things. Things like "how the fuck does training on piles of text make machines that can write new short stories" or "why is a big fat pile of matrix multiplications better at solving unseen math problems than I am".
It's not an argument - it's a dismissal. It's boneheaded refusal to think on the matter in any depth, or consider any of the implications.
The main reason to say "LLMs are just next token predictions" is to stop thinking about all the inconvenient things. Things like "how the fuck does training on piles of text make machines that can write new short stories" or "why is a big fat pile of matrix multiplications better at solving unseen math problems than I am".