Superficially you can make it sound very similar but our brains don't just statistically predict which word would most likely follow the one we just said given the current context, they take some sensory input, multiply it by what we had for breakfast, the mean things that bully at school said 20 years ago, and how daddy promised to take us to Disney Land but never did and returns a reaction that might be a sentence, a mean look, a pat on the back, a fit of rage, or whistling Amazing Grace out of tune.
Jokes aside, the most important difference, I think, is praxeological, as in we meatbags act to achieve a desired end or to relieve some felt discomfort and we have an intrinsic motivation to do something with the time we have.
Left alone, an LLM would likely just sit there, waiting for a prompt - and if it doesn't, well, I believe we should be very scared 😅
tommythepurchase / Tommy "The Purchase"
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