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Re:Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines by rockskon on Sunday February 09, 2025 @11:56PM (#42997080)
Whenever I see someone confidently making a comparison between LLMs and people, I assume they are unserious individuals more interested in maintaining hype around technology than they are in actually discussing what it does.
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Re:Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines by williamcotton on Monday February 10, 2025 @02:13AM (#42997692)
Someone saying "they feel" something is not a confident remark.

Also, there's plenty of neuroscience that is produced by very serious researchers that have no problems making comparisons between human brain function and statistical models.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian_approaches_to_brain_f...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictive_coding

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Re:Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines by rockskon on Monday February 10, 2025 @02:50AM (#42997858)
Theories and approaches to study are not rational bases for making comparisons between LLMs and the human brain.

They're bases for studying the human brain - something which we are very much in our infancy of understanding.

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