There are deep philosophical implications, just not these.
There has been a long history of reifying the behaviors of living things in general (e.g. vitalism) and humans in particular (e.g. dualism).
The success of LLMs challenges a lot of philosophy dealing with what behaviors are and are not possible in the absence of these categorical districtions.
I have had casual debates years ago, in which strong dualists asserted that the kind of creativity exhibited by today's LLMs is simply impossible. No doubt those folks are busy inventing "special philosophical creativity" that LLMs "aren't really doing," but they've lost credibility.
LLMs have demonstrated that there was never any need to invoke categorical districtions between human behavior and math-as-implemented-by-physics. The gap is closed, there is no more room for gods.
There has been a long history of reifying the behaviors of living things in general (e.g. vitalism) and humans in particular (e.g. dualism).
The success of LLMs challenges a lot of philosophy dealing with what behaviors are and are not possible in the absence of these categorical districtions.
I have had casual debates years ago, in which strong dualists asserted that the kind of creativity exhibited by today's LLMs is simply impossible. No doubt those folks are busy inventing "special philosophical creativity" that LLMs "aren't really doing," but they've lost credibility.
LLMs have demonstrated that there was never any need to invoke categorical districtions between human behavior and math-as-implemented-by-physics. The gap is closed, there is no more room for gods.