Because it literally can't reason, and it also has no innate agency. Even the most dedicated creators of LLM-based AI technology have clearly and repeatedly stated that these are very sophisticated stochastic parrots with no sense of self. How much easier could it be to see that LLMs like GPT aren't actual thinking machines in the way we humans are?
Yes, many people reason based on pure pattern-matching and repeat opinions not because they've reasoned them but because they're what they've absorbed from other sources, but even the world's most unreasoned human being with at least functional cognition still uses an enormous amount of constant, daily, hourly self-directed decision-making for a vast variety of complex and simple, often completely spontaneous scenarios and tasks in ways that no machine we've yet built on Earth does or could.
Moreover, even when some humans say or "believe" things based on nothing more than what they've absorbed from others without really considering it in depth, they almost always do so in a particularly selective way that fits their cognitive, emotional and personal predispositions. This very selectiveness is a distinctly conscious trait of a self-aware being. Its something LLM's don't have as far as I've yet seen.
Yes, many people reason based on pure pattern-matching and repeat opinions not because they've reasoned them but because they're what they've absorbed from other sources, but even the world's most unreasoned human being with at least functional cognition still uses an enormous amount of constant, daily, hourly self-directed decision-making for a vast variety of complex and simple, often completely spontaneous scenarios and tasks in ways that no machine we've yet built on Earth does or could.
Moreover, even when some humans say or "believe" things based on nothing more than what they've absorbed from others without really considering it in depth, they almost always do so in a particularly selective way that fits their cognitive, emotional and personal predispositions. This very selectiveness is a distinctly conscious trait of a self-aware being. Its something LLM's don't have as far as I've yet seen.