Scholars Clash Over Whether LLMs Can Have Minds
Philosopher Dioscuri and Microsoft researcher Matvelloso debated whether human mental-state language can be applied to LLMs, with Dioscuri defending functionalist attribution of beliefs and intentions to LLMs as mainstream cognitive science, and Matvelloso arguing such analogies mislead.
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