I think we know very little about how humans learn individual new facts from a neuroscience perspective. There are some studies that track fMRI scans of individuals who learn new things over the course of a day (sleep seems particularly important for the formation of connections in the brain having to do with new learning), but I am sceptical that it is the kind of learning that could be applied to Language Model type systems as of now.
In general though, I think humans are the gold standard for factual knowledge updating. I agree with you that there are some examples of failures, but no other system comes close in my view.
I think we know very little about how humans learn individual new facts from a neuroscience perspective. There are some studies that track fMRI scans of individuals who learn new things over the course of a day (sleep seems particularly important for the formation of connections in the brain having to do with new learning), but I am sceptical that it is the kind of learning that could be applied to Language Model type systems as of now.
In general though, I think humans are the gold standard for factual knowledge updating. I agree with you that there are some examples of failures, but no other system comes close in my view.