These three things are all instances of being OOM better at something specific. If you consider the LLM somewhat human-level at the thing it does, this suggests that it’s doing it in a way which is very different from what a human does.
That said, I’m not confident about this; I can sense there could be an argument that this counts as human but ramped up on some stats, and not an alien shoggoth.
First thoughts:
Context length is insanely long
Very good at predicting the next token
Knows many more abstract facts
These three things are all instances of being OOM better at something specific. If you consider the LLM somewhat human-level at the thing it does, this suggests that it’s doing it in a way which is very different from what a human does.
That said, I’m not confident about this; I can sense there could be an argument that this counts as human but ramped up on some stats, and not an alien shoggoth.