LLMs aren’t just blindly parroting human speech, though -- they’re not trivial Markov chains any more, copying words and phrases at the surface level. You can

LLMs aren’t just blindly parroting human speech, though -- they’re not trivial Markov chains any more, copying words and phrases at the surface level. You can argue back and forth about whether LLMs are actually “conscious”, whatever that means, but it’s clear that they can be tremendously effective and useful. They can use language to get stuff done.