> This is of course influenced by the patterns they learned.
So is your brain. So is mine.
> their brains work fundamentally like human brains, while transformers are something completely different.
I brought up the dog/cat analogy because those animals, while intelligent, are unbelievably dumb in some ways that are difficult for humans to comprehend. When people say that LLMs can't reason, they typically bring up certain tasks where the LLM falls on its face. I could bring up cases in which my dog fails in some task in a way that is completely incomprehensible to me. He's intelligent, but he has some puzzling blind spots.
Transformers mechanically work very differently from the human brain, but they also share a lot in common. They are a neural system that learns an internal representation of the world, and which is able to use that representation to reason about novel situations and give rational answers.
So is your brain. So is mine.
> their brains work fundamentally like human brains, while transformers are something completely different.
I brought up the dog/cat analogy because those animals, while intelligent, are unbelievably dumb in some ways that are difficult for humans to comprehend. When people say that LLMs can't reason, they typically bring up certain tasks where the LLM falls on its face. I could bring up cases in which my dog fails in some task in a way that is completely incomprehensible to me. He's intelligent, but he has some puzzling blind spots.
Transformers mechanically work very differently from the human brain, but they also share a lot in common. They are a neural system that learns an internal representation of the world, and which is able to use that representation to reason about novel situations and give rational answers.