[atty]

I think both your statement and their statement are too strong. There is no reason to think LLMs can do everything a human can do, which seems to be your implication. On the other hand, the technology is still improving, so maybe it’ll get there.

[TeMPOraL]

My take is that:

1) LLMs cannot do everything humans can, but

2) There's no fundamental reason preventing some future technology to do everything humans can, and

3) LLMs are explicitly designed and trained to mimic human capabilities in fully general sense.

Point 2) is the "or else magic exists" bit; point 3) says you need a more specific reason to justify assertion that LLMs can't create new concepts/abstractions, given that they're trained in order to achieve just that.

Note: I read OP as saying they fundamentally can't and thus never will. If they meant just that the current breed can't, I'm not going to dispute it.

[Jensson]

> 3) LLMs are explicitly designed and trained to mimic human capabilities in fully general sense.

This is wrong, LLM are trained to mimic human writing not to mimic human capabilities. Writing is just the end result not the inner workings of a human, most of what we do happens before we write it down.

You could argue you think that writing captures everything about humans, but that is another belief you have to add to your takes. So first that LLM are explicitly designed to mimic human writing, and then that human writing captures human capabilities in a fully general sense.

[nosianu]

Humans are trained on the real world. With real world sensors and the ability to act on their world. A baby starts with training hearing, touching (lots of that), smelling, tasting, etc. Abstract stuff comes waaayyyyy later.

LLMs are trained on our intercepted communication - and even then only the formal part that uses words.

When a human forms sentences it is from a deep model of the real world. Okay, people are also capable of talking about things they don't actually know, they have only read about, in which case they have a superficial understanding and unwarranted confidence similar to AI...