> These things are very different from the human mind. With your mind, you read the words one by one, building up intuition as you go.
You're confusing your perception of how your mind works with how your mind actually works.
Simply put, we have no idea how the human mind works. For all we know, its underlying principles could be very similar to LLMs, or they could be something nobody has thought of yet. But under no circumstances is human intuition about the human mind a reliable indicator for what is actually going on.
This is like asking ChatGPT why it came up with a specific response. It will give you an answer, of course, but that answer is generated the same way all its answers are – ChatGPT doesn't suddenly turn on a magic "introspection mode" that allows it to examine its internals. And there's no reason to assume that humans have such an introspection mode either. In fact, many results from experimental psychology seem to indicate that humans don't understand their own mental operations at all.
You're confusing your perception of how your mind works with how your mind actually works.
Simply put, we have no idea how the human mind works. For all we know, its underlying principles could be very similar to LLMs, or they could be something nobody has thought of yet. But under no circumstances is human intuition about the human mind a reliable indicator for what is actually going on.
This is like asking ChatGPT why it came up with a specific response. It will give you an answer, of course, but that answer is generated the same way all its answers are – ChatGPT doesn't suddenly turn on a magic "introspection mode" that allows it to examine its internals. And there's no reason to assume that humans have such an introspection mode either. In fact, many results from experimental psychology seem to indicate that humans don't understand their own mental operations at all.