AI vs Human Thinking How Large Language Models Really Work
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The video explores the differences and similarities between artificial intelligence (AI) large language models (LLMs) and human thinking across six key areas: learning, processing, memory, reasoning, error, and embodiment. It explains how humans learn through neuroplasticity, requiring few examples, while LLMs learn through backpropagation, needing vast amounts of data. Human brains process information in a massively parallel, content-addressable way focusing on concepts, whereas LLMs process sequences of tokens for next-step prediction. Human memory is multi-faceted and associative, while LLMs rely on static weights and a limited context window. Reasoning in humans involves fast intuitive and slow logical thinking, while LLMs mimic reasoning by generating plausible token sequences without true understanding. The video discusses AI hallucinations as analogous to human confabulations, both representing false but sincerely believed information. Lastly, it highlights embodiment as a crucial human trait—the physical interaction with the world that LLMs lack. Ultimately, while AI and human cognition can produce similar outputs, their underlying processes and experiences are fundamentally different, suggesting complementary strengths when combined.