alt Hacker NewsFor practical every day uses, does it really matter if it is "real thinking" or just really good "artificial thinking" with the same results? The machine can use artificial thinking to reach desired goals and outcomes, so for me it's the kind of thinking i would want from a machine.
For practical purposes, abstractions are useful, so, no, it doesn't matter.
But the post we are responding to is directly posing the philosophical question of whether the activity of LLM agents constitutes thought.