LLMs may reshape how we understand animal intelligence, argues researcher
JacksonKernion · x · 2026-10-18
Jackson Kernion argues LLMs will help us better appreciate the weirdness of animal intelligence: humans go through chemical states that augment cognition, and our emotional/motivational core is hard to replicate. He adds that humans still hold advantages on opinionated long-horizon tasks, though these seem addressable via RL rewards.
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