Critics push back on Anthropic's brain-transformer analogies as over-anthropomorphized statistics
gerardsans · x · 2026-10-18
Gerard Sans argues there's enough literature pushing back against thinking rooted in Anthropic's misguided assumptions that overly anthropomorphize statistics. Nothing actually links the brain to transformers beyond loose metaphors, he warns.
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