"Brains aren't next-token predictors": the counterpoint in an LLM-vs-brain debate

10001plateaus · x · 2026-09-26

@10001plateaus pushes back on framing human brains as next-token predictors: brains can think out of sequential order and have different mechanisms for choosing what to say. Aaroth replies that this is merely a syntactic fact about probability distributions and says nothing about whether brains function like LLMs internally.

Related event: Researchers Debate Whether "LLMs Are Just Next-Token Predictors" Is a Meaningless Claim(7 posts)→

Original post →

More from AGI Musings

AGI Musings channel →