[anonyfox]

There is zero reasoning in it so far, everything up to today is perfectly explainable with advanced statistics and NLP. Its large _language_ models after all, no matter the hype.

Still I find it excellent when exploring new knowledge domains or cross-comparing cross knowledge domains, since LLMs by design (and training corpus) will spill out highly probable terms/concepts matching my questions and phrase it nicely. Search on steroids when you will, where also real-time doesn't matter for me at all.

This is not intelligence, yet hugely valuable if used right. And I am sure because of this, a lot of scientific discoveries will be made with todays LLMs used in creative ways, since most of scientific discoveries is ultimately looking at X within a setting at Y, and there are a lot of potential X and Y combinations.

I am exaggerating a bit, but at some point (niels bohr?) had the thought of thinking about atoms like we do about planets, with stuff circling each other. Its an X but in Y situation. First come up with such a scenario (or: an automated way to combine lots of X and Y cleverly) and then filter the results for something that actually would make sense, and then dig deeper in a semi-automatic way with actual human in the loop at least.

[Ukv]

> everything up to today is perfectly explainable with advanced statistics and NLP

Is there some concrete task or behavior that, if demonstrated, you believe wouldn't be explainable by advanced statistics and NLP?

In my mind even human/animal behavior is in theory explainable with advanced statistics.

[anonyfox]

thats the jackpot question I think.

personally I am leaning towards yes, the human mind is nothing magical here, just more advanced wetware.