That makes me think what does thinking represent. Isn’t thinking considered as identifying and comparing patterns, and doing some ‘logical calculations’ (I don’t know the real term)? I think that’s nothing some machine couldn’t cone up with. Just thinking…
I once asked ChatGPT if it can think:
- ‘No’.
- ‘But, can you do the mentiond comparations and calculations?’
- ‘Yes.’
- ‘Could that be considered as correct definition of thinking?’
- ‘Yes.’
- ‘And you are capable of doing such comparations and calculations?’
- ‘Yes.’
- ‘So, can you think?’
- ‘No, I am a language model.’