Firstly this is meta ad hom. You're ignoring the argument to target the speaker(s)
Secondly, you're ignoring the fact that the community of voices with experience in data sciences, computer science and artificial intelligence themselves are split on the qualities or lack of them in current AI. GPT and LLM are very interesting but say little or nothing to me of new theory of mind, or display inductive logic and reasoning, or even meet the bar for a philosophers cave solution to problems. We've been here before so many, many times. "Just a bit more power captain" was very strong in connectionist theories of mind. fMRI brains activity analytics, you name it.
So yes. There are a lot of "us" who are pushing back on the hype, and no we're not a mini cult.
> GPT and LLM are very interesting but say little or nothing to me of new theory of mind, or display inductive logic and reasoning, or even meet the bar for a philosophers cave solution to problems.
The simple fact they can generate language so well makes me think... maybe language itself carries more weight than we originally thought. LLMs can get to this point without personal experience and embodiment, it should not have been possible, but here we are.
I think philosophers are lagging science now. The RL paradigm of agent-environment-reward based learning seems to me a better one than what we have in philiosophy now. And if you look at how LLMs model language as high dimensional embedding spaces .. this could solve many intractable philosophical problems, like the infinite homunculus regress problem. Relational representations straddle the midpoint between 1st and 3rd person, offering a possible path over the hard problem "gap".
Secondly, you're ignoring the fact that the community of voices with experience in data sciences, computer science and artificial intelligence themselves are split on the qualities or lack of them in current AI. GPT and LLM are very interesting but say little or nothing to me of new theory of mind, or display inductive logic and reasoning, or even meet the bar for a philosophers cave solution to problems. We've been here before so many, many times. "Just a bit more power captain" was very strong in connectionist theories of mind. fMRI brains activity analytics, you name it.
So yes. There are a lot of "us" who are pushing back on the hype, and no we're not a mini cult.