Do you understand human thinking well enough to determine what can think and what can't? We have next to no idea how an organic brain works.
We're already at the point where LLMs can beat the Turing test. If we define thinking as something only humans can do, then we can't decide if anyone is thinking at all just by talking to them through text, because we can't tell if they're human any more.
Not manufactured stop gaps or generic cynicism.
There is no reason more GPUs can’t contribute to further understanding, as one of many tools that have already assisted with relevent questions and problems.
Opt out of serious inquiry, no excuse needed, if you wish. Reframing others efforts is not necessary to do that.
Sure thing buddy, I'm the confused one in this entire millenarian frenzy.
What are you saying?
Are you saying you have a clear definition for thinking, and you can demonstrate that animals pass that definituon?
Then share the definition.
Or are you simply defining thinking as a common property of humans and animals, using animals and human behavior as exemplars?
A useful definition for focusing inquiry. But it does not clarify or constrain what else might or might not be enabled to think.
Or are you defining thinking as an inherent property of animals and humans that other things cannot have because they are not animals or humans?
Fine, but that that’s an exercise in naming. Something we are all free to do however we want. It has no explanatory power.
Complex phenomena emerge from interactions of things that don’t exhibit that phenomena all the time.
Atoms can’t think. In no sense can you find any thinking in an atom.
They are no different from dominos in that respect.
You can pile atoms to the moon without seeing any thinking.
Yet they can still be arranged so they do think.