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You do realize the majority of the training data the models were trained on was anthropomorphic data, yes?
And that there's a long line of replicated and followed up research starting with the Li Emergent World Models paper on Othello-GPT that transformers build complex internal world models of things tangential to the actual training tokens?
Because if you didn't know what I just said to you (or still don't understand it), maybe it's a bit more complicated than your simplified perspective can capture?
It's not a perspective. It just is.
It's not complicated at all. The AI hype is just surrounded with heaps of wishful thinking, like the paper you mentioned (side note; do you know how many papers on string theory there are? And how many of those papers are actually substantial? Yeah, exactly).
A computer is incapable of becoming your new self aware, evolved, best friend simply because you turned Moby Dick into a bunch of numbers.