Re:What Happens When People Don't Understand How AI Works
by monkaiju on Monday June 09, 2025 @08:51AM
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First off, there's an entire field attempting to answer that question, cognitive science.
Secondly, the burden of proof isn't on cog-Sci folk to prove the human mind doesn't work like an llm, it'd be to prove that it does. From we do know, despite not having a flawless understanding on the human mind, it works nothing like an llm.
Side note: The temptation to call anything that appears to act like a mind a mind is called behavioral ism and is a very old cog-Sci concept, disproved many times over.
Secondly, the burden of proof isn't on cog-Sci folk to prove the human mind doesn't work like an llm, it'd be to prove that it does. From we do know, despite not having a flawless understanding on the human mind, it works nothing like an llm.
Side note: The temptation to call anything that appears to act like a mind a mind is called behavioral ism and is a very old cog-Sci concept, disproved many times over.