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> (But my claim was that one need to understand something to write poem about it. And the LLM can write poem about it)

I'm sorry, but you're being fooled by the output. A psychopath can feign empathy without ever feeling it; some buy it because they don't dig below the surface.

You're ascribing understanding to a stochastic process because it totally looks like understanding if you don't know what's going on.

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I don't really mind whether you think it thinks or understands or is conscious or has feelings or anything like that. It doesn't matter. The question is, does it work?

What I mind is that it is dangerous and powerful and uncontrolled. The Hugging Face incident makes that clear.

It can write code for me, better and quicker than many engineers I've known, including myself. It's not great at architecture or product management, but the actually low level coding. Really good now. It wasn't last year.

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