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No, the fundamental difference is that you can reason about your mistake, can correct yourself and try to avoid falling into the same trap again. You are capable of independent thought. ChatGPT string words together.


Perhaps not ChatGPT, though it does show admirable skill, but it seems quite likely that its successors may well be able to do that through sheer size.

Certainly, in many conversations with ChatGPT, it is indistinguishable from a human changing their mind.

Since the process of "reasoning" is not particularly well understood, it seems a bit premature to declare it different from LLMs.




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