AI Isn’t Thinking - It’s Guessing the Next Word @TheLavinAgency
AI Isn’t Thinking - It’s Guessing the Next Word  @TheLavinAgency
Uploaded March 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
AI doesn’t “think.” It predicts.

Alexandra Samuel explains that tools like ChatGPT and Claude are large language models, which means they generate responses by predicting the next word in a sequence. It looks like thinking. It feels like thinking. But fundamentally, it’s pattern recognition at scale.

And here’s the uncomfortable twist: most human conversation isn’t that different. We’re often predicting the next word too.

If AI feels intelligent, maybe it’s worth asking what we really mean by intelligence in the first place.

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