Saying AI works like human minds misunderstands both, argues post
OscarMDavies · x · 2026-10-03
The author pushes back on the common analogy between AI and human minds: if AI resembled human cognition, it would imply humans simply scan previously heard sentences, find the most common word combinations, and produce speech by picking whichever words most often followed the last one. The comparison, he argues, undersells how human language actually works.
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