would you please check.

.... so I glad I didn't have to do any forensic IT research!

Edit - and now it does…

Parrots, ravens, etc. are experimenting with their social environment when they speak as humans do. Some actually acquire human language skills beyond mere mimicry.

People are not so good at understanding bird languages.

Once again, in this paper and in others, the language we are using to describe these computer systems is getting in the way of our understanding them.

The mind of a parrot is very similar to the mind of a human. We are shaped by the same evolutionary processes and we experience very similar realities. As humans we can even imagine ourselves flying like a bird, being like a bird, to further understand what birds might be thinking.

There's none of that in a computer system -- no mind, no training, no socialization, no imagination, no motivations, not even any language as humans, birds, and all sorts of animals experience it.

We don't yet know enough yet about the mechanisms of animal minds to duplicate them in electronics.

AI promoters are fooling themselves or else they are misrepresenting what AI actually is so they can sell it to a gullible audience.

When the magician on the stage claims he is reading your mind he is not reading your mind. It would be foolish to hire him as an actual mind reader.

Seriously though this is a brilliant conversation and I like how you think. I was most especially struck by the “x is not y but z” part of the conversation. This part of the LLM’s answer seemed very enlightening: “From a modeling standpoint, it functions as a high-probability discourse template for contrastive reframing.”

And that led me to realize that even this highly sophisticated conversation and model “reasoning” is the product of the scientific and technical works it ingested.

“Corpora”? Really? I almost fell a little bit in love.

.... I should have asked it to cut that crap out.