Programming

That is a well thought out and helpful answer, that's useful to me in understanding come aspects of faith in general, thank you.

Before i continue i want to highlight the differences i see between:

- LLM (Large Language Models)
	- The trending technology that is a smaller part of a general field.
        - it's what you are interacting with using ChatGPT, Claude etc
- AI (Artifical Intelligence)
	- The general field, which includes LLM's but also Neural Networks, certain kinds of algorithms and more.
- AGI (Artificial **General** Intelligence)
	- The common scientific term for what most people think of when they hear "AI". 
        - roughly and borderline inaccurately:
              - "a machine intellect of the same type as a human, matching or exceeding common human capability"

I get that faith, mysticism etc are how some of us deal with subjective ( from our point of view ) phenomena . I'd imagine this is why gods for things like storms or seasons etc come about.

As i said , I have no issue with any of that unless it starts being forced on people, i even vaguely understand how people could come to that conclusion and i'm not pretending to have any better answers.

My original question was more about this part:

Now, some people get tricked into thinking you can do the same with machines, but well, I think you can guess where I too stand on that idea.

Are you saying that the subjective experiences with the LLM's are the trick or the feeling of understanding and appreciation with the machine ?

Some peoples experiences with LLM's (perhaps what they consider to be an AGI?) sounds like they'd fall exactly in to the type of subjective phenomena that would bring about faith as a means of processing.

That some people seem to think that that kind of faith is any less valid than a guardian deity or a wind god is where I'm struggling.

I don't understand how people are making that kind of distinction, unless it's not something based in reasoning?

I want to make clear i don't think LLM's are sapient or sentient at this point, though i can't personally disprove it and am not against being convinced otherwise should sufficient rationale be provided.