Engineers Argue LLMs Are Just State Machines, Not Minds

Developer gerardsans and other engineers argue that anthropomorphizing LLMs is misguided, claiming Transformers are fundamentally soft automata—state machines—rather than minds.

2026-09-19 ~ 2026-09-19 · 2 related posts

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