alt Hacker NewsThese machines do not think and they do not have a mind. We may build such a thing in the future but these do not possess those qualities. It seems as if the majority of people do not understand this, which is why the public is so confused about why they produce output like they do.
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I don't see how this has anything to do with my answer, but ok?
The comment you’re replying to never implied that they think or have a mind. They merely stated that they respond in a dismissive way and not following instructions.
Basically the complaint is about how Claude is being trained.
> "These machines do not think and they do not have a mind."
You're so totally 1000% right about that, but they're really good at faking it, to such a degree that entirely too many people (even including some so-called "experts" in the field) have been utterly fooled by the mathematical "trickery" that performs the illusion of "intelligence".
>These machines do not think and they do not have a mind
Well, they do think, in that they produce output that is indistinguisable from thinking. If a person produced the same output to the same questions, we'd considered them thinking, maybe dumb sometimes, or paranoid at others, but still a thinking person.
We can argue about the quality and depth of the thinking that LLMs do (and we can say it's much cruder than a human thinking architecture, and of course not real time), but an LLM quacks like a thinking duck and looks like a thinking duck.