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A comment on Theory of Mind May Have Spontaneously Emerged in Large Language Models. Parent comment

Re:Theory of Mind May Have Spontaneously Emerged in Large La... by bryan0 on Thursday February 09, 2023 @05:58PM (#34732954)
> The problem with this facile view of things is that it seems to be a dead end for scientific theories.

You're overreaching quite a bit here, or I think you're misinterpreting what Parent said. I interpreted what they said as: it seems the difference in how we "know" something vs how an LLM "knows" something might actually be closer than some suspect. this certainly is not an "end of science".

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Re:Theory of Mind May Have Spontaneously Emerged in Large La... by avgcorrection on Saturday February 18, 2023 @03:19PM (#34850634)
Not the end. Just the exact opposite attitude that an inquisitive and humble scientist should have. So unlikely to go anywhere.

A “scientist” looks out at his living room. My Roomba and my cat have their own lifes. Who’s to say that they are not in fact the same in kind (but not degreee)? Good luck with that, professor.

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