Remind Me Again Why Large Language Models Can’t Think

To avoid looking like an unsophisticated fool it is safest to avow that LLMs cannot reason, think, or truly perceive the world. Sometimes people expressing even the possibility of an alternative are pointed in the direction of “ML for Dummies” and the implicit reductionist case.

Yet as Sister Aloysius said, “I have doubts. I have such doubts!”

This screed is too long. I apologize. But I’ve been tapping away here and there since this alien called ChatGPT arrived, and I was further inspired by a wonderful debate…