François Fleuret: LLMs lack internal conceptualization, unlike human cognition
francoisfleuret · x · 2026-09-14
Renowned AI researcher François Fleuret argues that LLMs differ fundamentally from human cognition: the model doesn't carry "in its mind" a conceptualization of where it is or where it wants to go — it constantly goes back to everything written so far to sample what comes next. This is a middle segment (2/3) of a longer thread contrasting LLM mechanics with human thinking.
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