[kweingar]

This seems backward to me. Wouldn’t you be less impressed by ChatGPT if you thought that thought that human intelligence worked the same way as LLMs?

If humans have some special sauce different from the computer, then it’s crazy that ChatGPT can emulate human writing so well. If humans are also just statistical models, then of course you can throw a big training set at some GPUs and it’ll do the same thing. Why should we be surprised or impressed by idioms?

[fnordpiglet]

Well, I don’t they work exactly like the human mind, because we are likely a more complex ensemble model. But a) it’s impressive because it’s reaching a goal of computing for generations and as a computer scientist I’m excited, b) it’s corpus of learnings is the amazing collection of everything that we built with the modern internet, so it’s breadth and depth is astounding. The act of creating what we have naturally is itself exciting though.

[OJFord]

I suppose it depends on the extent to which you're impressed by the concept of LLMs, I can see it both ways.

To explain the other way to your thinking: human intelligence is the same; holy crap they cracked robotic 'human' intelligence, it works exactly the same way.