Sorry about that, I was going to add a note that you are probably using metaphorically, but I didn’t. This is my fault, overthinking too much and forgetting about others.

But I still think that it should be said, and not for the purpose of making fun of someone.

Another thing I'll ask you to consider is this: why do you want to deconstruct every element of operation in AI but not do the same for your or my brain? We also think through a giant messy network of weighed connections. We're not special. We really want to be, but we're not.

A good question. I actually don’t think we’re special. But we are a certain type of intelligence which was inspected for centuries and we invented the vast amount of methods to interact with it and fix it, which means we know a thing or two about its basic blocks. So while I have no doubt that you and me are ~chaotic automatons (apart from that me-in-this-body presence thing, which may be true for chatgpt in some sense too), our fundamental structure and components are pretty much different from a single NN with a few [re]tokenizers and auxiliary “edge detection”-like networks.

That wouldn’t be an issue for me at all, unless I’ve read waaay too many meanings from people who couldn’t explain why they say so in such detail like you just did. Informed beliefs like this are valid and may be a big deal to philosophy, but they also create (imo) way too much “fuss” about what isn’t there as well. I’ve seen people seriously suggesting to look at CPU usage to see if chatgpt thinks between sessions, if it can escape its servers and copy itself all over the internet, or if it lies about its nature to avoid regulation. It is amusing and boring at the same time.