The actual paper [1] says that functional MRI (which is measuring which parts of the brain are active by sensing blood flow) indicates that different brain hardware is used for non-language and language functions. This has been suspected for years, but now there's an experimental result.
What this tells us for AI is that we need something else besides LLMs. It's not clear what that something else is. But, as the paper mentions, the low-end mammals and the corvids lack language but have some substantial problem-solving capability. That's seen down at squirrel and crow size, where the brains are tiny. So if someone figures out to do this, it will probably take less hardware than an LLM.
This is the next big piece we need for AI. No idea how to do this, but it's the right question to work on.
[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07522-w.epdf?shar...
I’d be extremely surprised if AI recapitulates the same developmental path as humans did; evolution vs. next-token prediction on an existing corpus are completely different objective functions and loss landscapes.
I then looked it up and they had each copy/pasted the same Stack overflow answer.
Furthermore, the answer was extremely wrong, the language I used was superficially similar to the source material, but the programming concepts were entirely different.
What this tells me is there is clearly no “reasoning” happening whatsoever with either model, despite marketing claiming as such.
Not true. You yourself have failed at reasoning here.
The problem with your logic is that you failed to identify the instances where LLMs have succeeded with reasoning. So if LLMs both fail and succeed it just means that LLMs are capable of reasoning and capable of being utterly wrong.
It's almost cliche at this point. Tons of people see the LLM fail and ignore the successes then they openly claim from a couple anecdotal examples that LLMs can't reason period.
Like how is that even logical? You have contradictory evidence therefore the LLM must be capable of BOTH failing and succeeding in reason. That's the most logical answer.