Cells don't _want_ anything either. Yet a funny thing happens when a large number of them add up.
We can go even further: atoms and electrons absolutely don't want anything either. Yet put them in the shape of a bunch of cells...
We can go even further: atoms and electrons absolutely don't want anything either. Yet put them in the shape of a bunch of cells...
Cells want to process energy and make DNA. Atoms and electrons want to react with things.
And that's exactly what both of them do.
A LLM wants to write words, and it does. But it doesn't want the things it writes about, and that's the big distinction.
One might argue that we anthropomorphise ourselves.