| ▲ | crabmusket 5 days ago | ||||||||||||||||
> I don’t think that’s how humans work. Every time this comes up I have to bring up Deutsch. He has the best description of intelligent cognition that I've come across. He takes Popper's "conjecture and criticism" approach to science and argues that this guess-and-check loop applies to all our thinking. E.g. understanding spoken language has some elements of guessing what might have been said and checking that against the sounds we heard. Visual processing has similar analogies. LLMs seem to be great at conjecturing stuff, but seem incapable of checking or even knowing they need to check. | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | codethief 4 days ago | parent [-] | ||||||||||||||||
> Every time this comes up I have to bring up Deutsch. He has the best description of intelligent cognition that I've come across. Would you have a reference? | |||||||||||||||||
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