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> The commercial offerings for "reasoning" models can easily run for 10 to 15 minutes before spitting out an answer. As to whether or not what it's doing counts as "thinking" ...

Tell me you don’t know how AI works without telling me you don’t know how AI works. After it sends you an output, the AI stops doing anything. Your conversation sits resident in ram for a bit, but there is no more processing happening.

It is waiting until you give it feedback... some might say it is a loop... a feedback loop ... that continues until the output has reached the desired state ... kinda sounds familiar ... like a PID loop where the human is the controller...

>To claim that an LLM is equivalent to a PID loop is utterly ridiculous.

Is it? It looks like one to me.

> By that logic a 747 is "basically a glorified lawn mower".

I don’t think a 747 can mow lawns, but I assume it has the horsepower to do it with some modifications.




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