It's not about the mechanisms, it's about what it is.
Humans have subjective experiences, they create individual memories, they relate these using language.
LLMs are trained on accounts of the experiences of others to regurgitate a facimilie of that experience.
As a human, my input data isn't a diary account or a book or a home video. It's a real world experience that I participate in, and that I use language to communicate.
An LLM is a facimilie of everything it's made up of. It doesn't have its own agency, it doesn't have its own thoughts. I can ask it what it is like to ride a roller coaster and it will give me some text, but what is that text? It's something that someone else wrote about something the llm has no real experience of.
The llm is in platos cave staring at other peoples shadows.
Humans have subjective experiences, they create individual memories, they relate these using language.
LLMs are trained on accounts of the experiences of others to regurgitate a facimilie of that experience.
As a human, my input data isn't a diary account or a book or a home video. It's a real world experience that I participate in, and that I use language to communicate.
An LLM is a facimilie of everything it's made up of. It doesn't have its own agency, it doesn't have its own thoughts. I can ask it what it is like to ride a roller coaster and it will give me some text, but what is that text? It's something that someone else wrote about something the llm has no real experience of.
The llm is in platos cave staring at other peoples shadows.