> how a statistical prediction model can come so close to actual reasoning while seemingly using completely different tools to get there.
There is a theory of brain function (predictive coding, predictive processing), that posits that the brain works by predicting expected input from the senses and then comparing that with actual input. This doesn't seem a million miles from a language model operating on words rather than sense data.
There is a theory of brain function (predictive coding, predictive processing), that posits that the brain works by predicting expected input from the senses and then comparing that with actual input. This doesn't seem a million miles from a language model operating on words rather than sense data.