The Agentic Self: Parallels Between AI and Self-Improvement

Is Murat suggesting that thinking equals predicting the next token or is this just fiction to read?

Except that something like half of people don't have any internal monologue. It's tempting to pretend that LLM are doing similar things to our brains, but the reality is that they are extremely different and only very very superficially appear to be doing similar things.

> One of the most profound pieces of advice I ever read as a PhD student came from Prof. Manuel Blum, a Turing Award winner. In his essay "Advice to a Beginning Graduate Student", he wrote: "Without writing, you are reduced to a finite automaton. With writing you have the extraordinary power of a Turing machine."

only if you have an unlimited amount of paper!

otherwise you're still a finite state machine (technically)