Anyone who has played around with LLMs for a while can see that they are not just “stochastic parrots”, but I think it’s a pretty big leap to call anything within them “human-like” or “brain-like”.
To a large extent, this describes my new views on LLM capabilities, too, especially transformers. Missing important aspects of human cognition, but it’s not a useless stochastic parrot, like some of the more dismissive people claim it is.
To a large extent, this describes my new views on LLM capabilities, too, especially transformers. Missing important aspects of human cognition, but it’s not a useless stochastic parrot, like some of the more dismissive people claim it is.