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> Because that's exactly what they are. An LLM is just a big optimization function with the objective "return the most probabilistically plausible sequence of words in a given context". > There is no higher thinking. They were literally built as a mimicry of intelligence.

Maybe real intelligence also is a big optimization function? Brain isn't magical, there are rules that govern our intelligence and I wouldn't be terribly surprised if our intelligence in fact turned out to be kind of returning the most plausible thoughs. Might as well be something else of course - my point is that "it's not intelligence, it's just predicting next token" doesn't make sense to me - it could be both!