Can ChatGPT Really Think?

OpenAI’s newest model o1 is claimed to be ‘reasoning’ and even ‘thinking,’ but this claim is not accepted by many. Apart from the well known sceptic like Gary Marcus, this time Clem Delangue, CEO of Hugging Face, was also clearly not impressed with the ‘thinking’ claim. 

“Once again, an AI system is not ‘thinking’, it’s ‘processing’, ‘running predictions’,… just like Google or computers do,” said Delangue, when talking about how OpenAI is painting the false picture with what the company’s newest model can achieve. “Giving the false impression that technology systems are human is just cheap snake oil and marketing to fool you into thinking it’s more clever than it is,” he added.