Research that combines human brain imaging and psychology with computer-intensive LLM studies at work.
Here I present a series of novel articles, preprints and reviews with research suggesting that, at least for word processing and procedural reasoning, LLMs function very similarly to the human brain, albeit with some substantial differences that scientists are now aware of. beginning to clarify.
The emergence of large language models (LLMs) has sparked considerable interest in their potential to mirror the cognitive processes of the human brain. These complex computational systems demonstrate increasingly sophisticated capabilities in language processing, reasoning, and problem solving, raising the intriguing question of whether they could operate using principles similar to those that govern the human mind. In fact, I've covered this idea a couple of times before, particularly in the context of the “Chinese room argument” and also drawing parallels between how LLMs process text and how humans learn to…
