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Alimbiquated t1_jcd2z4g wrote

Reply to comment by harharveryfunny in Modern language models refute Chomsky’s approach to language [R] by No_Draft4778

I agree that comparing these learning processes to brains is bogus.

There is a general tendency to assume that if something seems intelligent, it must be like a human brain. It's like assuming that because it's fast, a car must have legs like a horse and eat oats.

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Necessary-Meringue-1 t1_jcm6j79 wrote

>There is a general tendency to assume that if something seems intelligent, it must be like a human brain. It's like assuming that because it's fast, a car must have legs like a horse and eat oats.

Ironic, because that is literally what that article is doing.

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Alimbiquated t1_jcmi1fd wrote

Right, it makes no sense.

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Necessary-Meringue-1 t1_jcmjqhm wrote

I don't understand why it's so hard for people to acknowledge that LLMs deliver extremely impressive results, but that does not mean they have human-like intelligence of language understanding.

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