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Researchers challenge Stoljar and Zhang's argument that LLMs cannot think, proposing instead that if LLMs think at all, they likely engage in arational, associative forms of thinking rather than rational cognition. This philosophical debate reframes how we conceptualize machine intelligence and consciousness.
A new academic paper analyzes the ontological nature of Large Language Models like ChatGPT, concluding they are not autonomous agents but rather 'linguistic automatons' or 'libraries-that-talk' that lack true agency. The research argues that LLMs fail to meet key conditions for autonomous agency including individuality, normativity, and interactional asymmetry, while still enabling new forms of human-machine interaction.
