The other side of this is to ask, what do humans believe? As in, what are the mechanisms going on that we then categorize as constructing beliefs.
At a certain level I think if we took a fresh look at beliefs, we’d see humans and GPT are doing similar things, albeit with different optimization pressures. But on another level, as you point out by addressing the question of resolving inconsistency, GPT seems to lack the sort of self-referential quality that humans have, except insofar as GPT, say, is fed articles about GPT.
The other side of this is to ask, what do humans believe? As in, what are the mechanisms going on that we then categorize as constructing beliefs.
At a certain level I think if we took a fresh look at beliefs, we’d see humans and GPT are doing similar things, albeit with different optimization pressures. But on another level, as you point out by addressing the question of resolving inconsistency, GPT seems to lack the sort of self-referential quality that humans have, except insofar as GPT, say, is fed articles about GPT.