Comment by Marshferm
There's nothing similar about LLMs and human brains. Theyre entirely divergent. Training a machine has nothing remotely to do with biological development.
There's nothing similar about LLMs and human brains. Theyre entirely divergent. Training a machine has nothing remotely to do with biological development.
Hard metrics: LLMs perform NLP, NLU and CSR tasks at humanlike levels.
Research findings: LLMs have and use world models. They use some type of abstract thinking - with internal representation that often correspond to human abstract concepts. Which adds up to a capability profile that's amusingly humanlike.
Humans, however, don't like that. They really don't. AI effect is too strong, and it demands that humans must be Special. So some humans, when faced with the possibility that an AI might be doing the same thing their own brains do, resort to coping and seething.
These are not examples, they’re narrative (false) equivalencies.
Brains don’t perform Natural language CSR etc, those are cultural extensions separate from mental states etc. there are no functional equivalencies here.
There are many many empirical disputes for function eg
Aru et al “The feasibility of artificial consciousness through the lens of neuroscience” December 2023
They perform incredibly similar functions. Thus, "functionally similar".