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LLMs and Humans are Cognitive Cousins – Sean Carroll podcast w/Dr. Chandra Sripada (preposterousuniverse.com)
submitted 2 days ago by nymnympseudonym@piefed.social to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Do LLMs "think" in a similar way to humans? Or is it totally different?

Maybe it's a good idea to listen to someone who publishes papers on this very subject, and is a professor of both philosophy and psychiatry and directs an Institute for Cognitive Science. That person is Dr. Chandra Sripada and his insights are fascinating.

Sean Carroll (interviewer, scientist and science communicator) says this interview made him lean towards the answer being "yes, they think like humans" whereas previously he favored the opposite view.

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[–] melfie@lemmy.zip 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Andrew Ng said artificial neural networks are like a “cartoon brain”, which I think is pretty apt. It’s cool that having billions of parameters (cartoon “synapses”) can result in emergent behavior where a machine can “reason”. That was the original idea from as far back as the 1940s, and now we have the compute and have found a transformer architecture that can achieve the original vision. Very cool indeed. What’s not cool is the tech bros turning the tech into a large scale game of blackjack.

[–] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 3 points 1 day ago

tech bros turning the tech into a large scale game of blackjack

Agreed 100%

As a person who was bookish and deeply computer-focused from back when that meant only that you had no friends outside D&D -- before it also meant, "probably has a challenging career and makes good money".

That "tech" now prefixes the socializing extrovert bros who didn't spend their entire adolescence learning assembly language and soldering alone in their room... is a complete, 180-degree U-turn subversion from the original "techy nerd" meaning

[–] RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip 4 points 2 days ago

Not blackjack. More like go fish with spoons instead of cards.