To me it feels very much like a brain: my brain often lacks knowledge, but i can use external documents to augment it. My brain also has limitations in what it can remember, I hardly remember anything I learned in high school or university on science, chemistry, math, so I need to write things down to bring back knowledge later.

Text and words are the concepts we use to transfer knowledge in schools, across generations, etc. we describe concepts in words, so other people can learn these concepts.

Without words and text we would be like animals unable to express and think about concepts

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tobr 6 days ago | parent [-]

The point isn’t that writing and reading aren’t useful. The point is that they’re different from forming new neurological connections as you familiarize yourself with a problem. LLMs, as far as I know, can’t do that when you use them.

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ako 5 days ago | parent [-]

Does that really matter if the result is the same, they have a brain, they have additional instructions, and with these they can achieve specified outcomes. Would be interesting to see how far we can shrink the brains to get desired outcomes with the right instructions.

	▲	tobr 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		It matters if the result is not the same. The article argues that this is an important aspect of what a human developer does that current AI cannot. And I agree. As I said, I find the idea very convincing as a general explanation for when and why current LLMs stop making progress on a task and start going in circles.