[habinero]

> LLMs use the same type of "abstract thinking" process as humans

It's surprising you say that, considering we don't actually understand the mechanisms behind how humans think.

We do know that human brains are so good at patterns, they'll even see patterns and such that aren't actually there.

LLMs are a pile of statistics that can mimic human speech patterns if you don't tax them too hard. Anyone who thinks otherwise is just Clever Hans-ing themselves.

[ACCount37]

We understand the outcomes well enough. LLMs converge onto a similar process by being trained on human-made text. Is LLM reasoning a 1:1 replica of what the human brain does? No, but it does something very similar in function.

I see no reason to think that humans are anything more than "a pile of statistics that can mimic human speech patterns if you don't tax them too hard". Humans can get offended when you point it out though. It's too dismissive of their unique human gift of intelligence that a chatbot clearly doesn't have.

[habinero]

> We understand the outcomes well enough

We do not, in fact, "understand the outcomes well enough" lol.

I don't really care if you want to have an AI waifu or whatever. I'm pointing out that you're vastly underestimating the complexity behind human brains and cognition.

And that complex human brain of yours is attributing behaviors to a statistical model that the model does not, in fact, possess.