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It's also an unnecessary distinction. Magic tricks are physics and mathematics too. LLMs are exactly that kind of trick.
"The mind is just math" doesn't mean "large language models can think".
They are emulating a tiny tiny part of the mechanism of thought, in a brutally mistaken way that doesn't generalize itself to actual reasoning.
Resuna
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