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I would also like to add another key difference between human learning and machine learning. When I, as a person, read a book, I can conceptually understand the story. A machine would digest that same book by, for example, counting the numbers of times each word comes after another and assigning probabilities to occurrences or words or basic sentences. The major differences are still being explored. We don’t fully understand how humans learn, fundamentally. We know somewhat mechanisticly that neurons share and process chemical signals, but we don’t know how that information is interpreted or stored. We don’t know the equivalent of a computer language of the neurons (or other tissue types that may also learn). We know that we require input to learn, as do computers, the similarities kind of end there. That said, we definitely learn differently from how LLMs “learn.”
That's not true at all. We know how learning and memory work?