Screenshot for you: https://gist.github.com/simonw/5b051aa10e97ac86eeb539f51a828...
That looks like thinking. If you want to argue it's not thinking you are absolutely welcome to, but you need to say more than just "no we can't?".
That looks like thinking. If you want to argue it's not thinking you are absolutely welcome to, but you need to say more than just "no we can't?".
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.13775
Just because these models are good at outputting text that appears to be a series of thoughts, doesn’t mean that LLMs are thinking.
'thinking' here needs a clearer definition. Even for us humans the language is just an after the fact attempt at describing what went on, or is going on inside our heads
Consider: https://www.unsw.edu.au/newsroom/news/2019/03/our-brains-rev...
At some point the cry will change to, "It only looks like thinking from the outside!" And some time after that: "It only looks conscious from the outside..."
Before it makes a move, a little LED labeled ‘thinking’ blinks for a while.
Looks like thinking, too.