[Jtarii]

When someone asks you a question in what ways are you not an "autocomplete"?

You aren't aware of how you come up with the words you are saying, you just start talking and the next word somehow falls out of your mouth. Maybe you think before you start talking, but where do the thoughts come from? They just appear to you in your head. We are just as much a predictive machine as LLMs, the human brain is just fuzzier.

[ButlerianJihad]

Human minds have the ability to reason and to evaluate sources by different authorities. It is why some children are able to obey their parents while ignoring scammers on TV commercials, shouting at them to buy stuff.

We are also able to apply lived experience to our reasoning. That is why we can accurately answer a question about whether to drive or walk to the car wash. Or how we could immediately see how many "r"s are in "strawberry".

LLMs, being "glorified autocomplete" don't have a real way to separate truth from lies, or critically evaluate sources of information. Humans can absorb information in various ways, such as our "classic five senses" which inform our daily lives and motions, or by absorbing information via reading, hearing, seeing, etc., or by inferring and reasoning and being "guided by the Spirit" in a more metaphysical way where LLMs would fail.

[gloosx]

Thoughts are derivative of sensory processing. We have subjective experience and subjective feeling, our symbols are grounded in physical reality. LLM "thoughts" are simulacrum, manipulating symbols according to rules does not imply understanding. One must be quite derealised to think we are predictive machinery or the human brain is just a fuzzier – it is much more than that.

[slopinthebag]

Well, maybe this is how you think but not everyone is a self-admitted NPC. Speak for yourself only please.

[Jtarii]

Think of a movie.

You had literally -zero- input in what your brain gave you as an answer. It just gave you something, you can make up whatever story you want to tell yourself, "it's my favourite movie", "I saw it last week", whatever you want. It doesn't change the fact that the words on your screen triggered some neural pathway in your brain that is totally out of your control and landed on "Titanic".

[slopinthebag]

> You had literally -zero- input in what your brain does

:)

[DangitBobby]

It's how literally everyone thinks. Your thoughts come unbidden via a process you do not understand and cannot observe and your consciousness follows them along. Your brain is not as special as you imagine.

[slopinthebag]

Actually that this happens through our subconscious is incredibly special. Our brains are a marvel.

[DangitBobby]

It's like we have little thinking sub-agents auto-completing cognition tokens in the background that then surface findings to the main agent which then auto-completes some more cognition tokens in the foreground.

[slopinthebag]

Hah thats cute actually