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Well no, most people can reason without writing or speaking. I can just think and reason about anything. Not sure what you mean. Reasoning is something like st
by proc0 1y ago
Well no, most people can reason without writing or speaking. I can just think and reason about anything. Not sure what you mean.
Reasoning is something like structured thoughts. You have a series of thoughts that build on each other to produce some conclusion (also a thought). If we assume that the brain is a computer, then thoughts and reasoning are implemented on brain software with some kind of algorithm... and I think it's pretty obvious this algorithm is completely different than what happens in LLMs... to the extent that we can safely say it is not reasoning like the brain does.
There is also a semantic argument here, if we say that since we don't know what humans are doing then we can also stretch the word and use it for AI, but I think this is muddying the waters and creating all the hype that I think will not deliver what it's promising.
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- ants_everywhere 1y agoThat's not at all what the brain does though. What the brain does is closer to activating a bunch of different ideas in parallel. Some of those activations rise to the level of awareness, some don't. Each activation triggers others by common association. And we try to make the best of that thought soup by a combination of reward neurochemicals and emotions. A human brain is nothing at all like a computer in terms of logic. It's much more like an LLM. That makes sense because LLMs came largely from trying to build artificial versions of biological neural networks. One big difference is that LLMs always think linguistically, whereas language is only a relatively small part of what brains do.