How to think about LLMs and what are the different viewpoints out there? [D]

There are primarily three sets of viewpoints about LLMs, and how to think about them.

Link to Original Article: [https://medium.com/aiguys/can-llms-really-reason-and-plan-50b0ac6addd8](https://medium.com/aiguys/can-llms-really-reason-and-plan-50b0ac6addd8)

Position I (Skepticism): A few scientists like Chomsky view LLMs as highly advanced statistical tools that don’t equate to intelligence at all. The viewpoint is that these machines have seen so much data they can just give responses to any question we might come up with. Mathematically, they have calculated conditional probability for every possible question we can come up …

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