[cortic]

I'm not sure humans are any different;

Humans don't think. At all. They do next token prediction.

If they are [raised in environments] that includes lots of examples of the result of people thinking, what they produce will look sort of like the results of people thinking, but then if they were [raised in an environment] of people repeating the same seven knock knock jokes over and over and over in some complex pattern (e.g. every third time, in French), what they produced will look like that, and nothing like thinking.

I believe this can be observed in examples of feral children and accidental social isolation in childhood. It also explains the slow start but nearly exponential growth of knowledge within the history of human civilization.

[ofjcihen]

That’s…completely incorrect.

I’m not going to hash out childhood development here because I’m not paid to post but if anyone read the above and was even slightly convinced I implore you to go read up on even the basics of early childhood development.

[cortic]

> I implore you to go read up on even the basics of early childhood development.

That's kind of like taking driving lessons in order to fix an engine. 'Early childhood development' is an emergent property of what could be cumulatively called a data set (everything the child has been exposed to).

[MangoToupe]

Sure, but you can hold humans liable for their advice. Somehow I doubt this will be allowed to happen with chatbots.