I read such statements as being claims that "intuition" is part of consciousness etc.
It's still too strong a claim given that matrix multiplication also describes quantum mechanics and by extension chemistry and by extension biology and by extension our own brains… but I frequently encounter examples of mistaking two related concepts for synonyms, and I assume in this case it is meant to be a weaker claim about LLMs not being conscious.
Me, I think the word "intuition" is fine, just like I'd say that a tree falling in a forest with no one to hear it does produce a sound because sound is the vibration of the air instead of the qualia.
Funnily, for me intuition is the part of intelligence which I can more easily imagine as being done by a neural network. When my intuition says this person is not to trust I can easily imagine that being something like a simple hyperplane classification in situation space.
It's the active, iterative thinking and planning that is more critical for AGI and, while obviousky theoretically possible, much harder to imagine a neural network performing.
No, matrix multiplication is the system humans use to make predictions about those things but it doesn’t describe their fundamental structure and there’s no reason to imply they do.
It's still too strong a claim given that matrix multiplication also describes quantum mechanics and by extension chemistry and by extension biology and by extension our own brains… but I frequently encounter examples of mistaking two related concepts for synonyms, and I assume in this case it is meant to be a weaker claim about LLMs not being conscious.
Me, I think the word "intuition" is fine, just like I'd say that a tree falling in a forest with no one to hear it does produce a sound because sound is the vibration of the air instead of the qualia.