[Opinion] Can AI think – and should it? What it means to think, from Plato to ChatGPT

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When chatbots communicate like humans, old questions arise: Where does the pre-programmed machine end? Where does the thinking subject begin?When Alan Turing developed his world-famous intelligence test for machines, there were no computers. At least not in the literal sense of our present. Artificial intelligence, humanoid robots and large language models were distant visions. That machines could once overpower human thinking: science fiction d…