That’s a very arbitrary distinction. Inherently human doesn’t really mean anything.
Would you count it as reading if instead of processing the text files directly, it flipped through pages of a book using mechanical limbs, viewed the pages with a video camera, used OCR to convert the images to text, then processed that text?
LLMs are far more training data-intensive, hardware-intensive, and energy-intensive than a human brain. They’re still very much a brute-force method of getting computers to work with language.
Because reading is an inherently human activity.
An LLM consuming data from a training model is not.
That’s a very arbitrary distinction. Inherently human doesn’t really mean anything.
Would you count it as reading if instead of processing the text files directly, it flipped through pages of a book using mechanical limbs, viewed the pages with a video camera, used OCR to convert the images to text, then processed that text?
Ultimately, that is the “human” process.
LLMs forcing us to take a look at ourselves and see if we’re really that special.
I don’t think we are.
For now, we’re special.
LLMs are far more training data-intensive, hardware-intensive, and energy-intensive than a human brain. They’re still very much a brute-force method of getting computers to work with language.