Labenz Says LLM-Human Structures Make Anthropomorphizing Valid
AI entrepreneur notes parallels between LLMs and human cognition.
Nathan Labenz, an AI entrepreneur at Waymark who hosts The Cognitive Revolution podcast, posted that analogous structures between LLMs and humans have made anthropomorphizing more scientifically valid. His remark responded on X to a post by researcher Yong Zheng-Xin that compared critics of anthropomorphizing AI agent swarms to earlier skeptics who called LLMs stochastic parrots. Founder Flo Crivello retweeted the original post.
last hot take of this weekend: the ‘stop anthropomorphize the swarm’ crowd is the new ‘LLM is just a stochastic parrot’ crowd tale as old as time
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Nathan Labenz@labenzTrue, but also … they were correct until recently One of my biggest surprises of the last ~12 months is how much analogous structure exists between LLMs and humans, and thus how much more scientifically valid anthropomorphizing has become
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YZ Yong Zheng-Xin@yong_zhengxinlast hot take of this weekend: the ‘stop anthropomorphize the swarm’ crowd is the new ‘LLM is just a stochastic parrot’ crowd tale as old as time
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