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.

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    10 hours ago

    They are massive autocomplete at scale

    Rather a lot of the cognitive science community would argue that is what human brains are.

    Anticipating the next sensory input is literally a basic driver for nervous systems in general and neurons very specifically.