As Donald Knuth put it: “Ai has by now succeeded in doing essentially everything that requires ‘thinking’ but has failed to do most of what people and animals do without thinking …”

What do we have left that is ours and ours alone? Sensorimotor skills that are all but automatic, yes. Consciousness, yes. Emotions. Instinct. Appetites, impulses and... See more

Krishnamurti didn’t see intelligent machines as some strange, rival species ready to replace us. To him, machines were just an extension of the human mind — a brain built in our own image, with human and artificial thought as mirror reflections. When you think about it, AI developers aren’t pulling ideas out of thin air; they’re crafting AI based

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… current LLMs definitely do not think like people. There is no doubt that LLM cognition is dramatically limited compared to our own. But this is not because their computation runs on silicon chips rather than cortical circuits. It is not because LLMs are just regurgitating their training data, and it is not because they make 'predictions' rather

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