Do LLMs "think" in a similar way to humans? Or is it totally different?

Maybe it's a good idea to listen to someone who publishes papers on this very subject, and is a professor of both philosophy and psychiatry and directs an Institute for Cognitive Science. That person is Dr. Chandra Sripada and his insights are fascinating.

Sean Carroll (interviewer, scientist and science communicator) says this interview made him lean towards the answer being "yes, they think like humans" whereas previously he favored the opposite view.

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[–] [S] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

look like human reasoning

You should really listen to the podcast. Not going to summarize it here, but it looks like human reasoning including semantic activation patterns, use of productions, and dozens of other things that cognitive psychologists have known about for decades but for which they have not been able to come up with a mechanism.

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