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That's nonsense and I think you know it. Categorically a car and an atom bomb are completely different, other than perhaps both being "mechanical". An LLM and a human brain are almost indistinguishable. They are categorically closer than an atom bomb and a car. What is a human being other than an advanced LLM?

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> An LLM and a human brain are almost indistinguishable.

That's the idea that I don't buy into at all. I mean, I understand the attempt at connecting the brain to an ML model. But I don't understand why someone would bother believing that and assigning so much weight to the idea. Just seems a bit nonsensical to me.

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