I imagine that it should be clear to everyone here now, until I read threads like this comparing child development to the advances in LLM building.
It’s like saying that a new M-Apple chip developed like a child. There is a clear tendency to give human like attributes to LLMs, probably caused by the terms used in ML: training, learning, etc.
For me, it was the same genre of comment as e.g. comments that call out how vision models tend to be structured surprisingly similarly to how the visual cortex is structured, even without specifically attempting to make that happen, and within the boundaries of our understanding of either things of course.
So not so much anthropomorphization, and more a recognition of the unintentional, and surprising, biomimicry.
Though to be honest, I'll be damned if any of the pictures in the post look anything like any child drawing I've ever seen, Grok's or any of the other models.
No, it's more like you're being overly literal. As a field the technology is developing. Just like people might say "in the 60's integrated circuits developed quickly".
The parent wasn't referring to individual LLMs developing, but that overall new SOTA LLMs models are increasing in capabilities in ways similar to how human children do.
It’s like saying that a new M-Apple chip developed like a child. There is a clear tendency to give human like attributes to LLMs, probably caused by the terms used in ML: training, learning, etc.