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.

  • nymnympseudonym@piefed.socialOP
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    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