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Why do we give 'human' qualities to these things? There is no 'mind' to these models. They are just mathematical equations - aren't they?
I think it’s reasonable to consider these as a kind of alien mind. Modeling human text (ie, attempting to explain it by searching for an artificial neural circuit that predicts its distribution) will always induce some echo of humanity in the artifact.