[southernplaces7]

Some of the comparisons here in the comments between LLMs and the human brain go into the territory of deep naval gazing and abstract justification. To use a phrase mentioned below, by Sagan "You can make an apple pie from scratch, but you'd have to invent the universe first". Sure, to the deepest level this may be somewhat true, but the apple pie would still just be an apple pie, and not a condensed version of all that the universe contains.

The same applies to LLMs in a way. If you calculate their capabilities to some arbitrary extreme of back--end inputs and ability based on the humans building them and all that they can do, you can arrive at a whole range of results for how capable and energy-efficient they are, but it wouldn't change the fact that the human brain as its own device does enormously more with much less energy than any LLM currently in existence. Our evolutionary path to that ability is secondary to it, since it's not a direct part of the brain's material resources in any given context.

The contortions by some to give equivalency between human brains and LLMs are absurd when the very blatantly obvious reality is that our brains are absurdly more powerful. They're also of course capable of self-directed, self-aware cognition, which by now nobody in their rational mind should be ascribing to any LLM.