> What more are human brains than piles of wet meat?
Calculation isn't what makes us special; that's down to things like consciousness, self-awareness and volition.
> The main reason to say "LLMs are just next token predictions" is to stop thinking about all the inconvenient things. Things like...
They do it by iteratively predicting the next token.
Suppose the calculations to do a more detailed analysis were tractable. Why should we expect the result to be any more insightful? It would not make the computer conscious, self-aware or motivated. For the same reason that conventional programs do not.
Calculation isn't what makes us special; that's down to things like consciousness, self-awareness and volition.
> The main reason to say "LLMs are just next token predictions" is to stop thinking about all the inconvenient things. Things like...
They do it by iteratively predicting the next token.
Suppose the calculations to do a more detailed analysis were tractable. Why should we expect the result to be any more insightful? It would not make the computer conscious, self-aware or motivated. For the same reason that conventional programs do not.