> [...]
> Premise 1: LLMs can realistically "mimic" human communication.
> Premise 2: LLMs are trained on massive amounts of text data.
> Conclusion: The structure that allows LLMs to realistically "mimic" human communication is its intelligence.
"If P then Q" is the Material conditional: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Material_conditional
Does it do logical reasoning or inference before presenting text to the user?
That's a lot of waste heat.
(Edit) with next word prediction just is it,
"LLMs cannot find reasoning errors, but can correct them" >>38353285
"Misalignment and Deception by an autonomous stock trading LLM agent" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38353880#38354486