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Re:Chomsky and the Two Cultures of Statistical Learning by randcraw on Friday November 06, 2026 @09:38AM (#50392837)
LLMs behave like they're closest, but only during execution. During training, obviously, they don't resemble the human brain at all. No human reads a million books before they begin to speak.

And I'd be hard pressed to identify many cognitive characteristics of LLMs during execution that resemble human thinking, aside from those that are readily parrotable.

As a model of human cognition, LLMs deep suck.

Re:Chomsky and the Two Cultures of Statistical Learning by swid on Friday November 06, 2026 @03:45PM (#50398257)
Humans have billions of years of evolution going for them, that must count…