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wizzwizz4today at 5:34 PM1 replyview on HN

Human learning is materially different from LLM training. They're similar in that both involve providing input to a system that can, afterwards, produce output sharing certain statistical regularities with the input, including rote recital in some cases – but the similarities end there.


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grueztoday at 8:36 PM

>Human learning is materially different from LLM training [...] but the similarities end there.

Specifically what "material differences" are there? The only arguments I heard are are around human exceptionalism (eg. "brains are different, because... they just are ok?"), or giving humans a pass because they're not evil corporations.