I think it’s a bit different. Evolution did not give us the dataset. It helped us to establish the most efficient training path, and the data, the enormous volume of it starts coming immediately after birth. Humans learn continuously through our senses and use sleep to compress the context. The amount of data that LLMs receive only appears big. In our first 20 years of life we consume by at least one order of magnitude more information compared to training datasets. If we count raw data, maybe 4-5 orders of magnitude more. It’s also different kind of information and probably much more complex processing pipeline (since our brain consciously processes only a tiny fraction of input bandwidth with compression happening along the delivery channels), which is probably the key to understanding why LLMs do not perform better.