alt Hacker NewsErr, no, that’s not what’s happening. Nobody, at least in this thread (and most others like it I’ve seen), is confidently claiming LLMs can think.
There are people confidently claiming they can’t and then other people expressing skepticism at their confidence and/or trying to get them to nail down what they mean.
This entire debate over the years is because so many confidently assert that AI can think, or that AI will soon be our God, or our ruler, etc.