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From Our Neurons to Yours

From Our Neurons to Yours

What ChatGPT understands: Large language models and the neuroscience of meaning | Laura Gwilliams

Apr 17, 2025 · 43m

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If you spend any time chatting with a modern AI chatbot, you've probably been amazed at just how human it sounds, how much it feels like you're talking to a real person. Much ink has been spilled explaining how these systems are not actually conversing, not actually understanding — they're statistical algorithms trained to predict the next likely word. But today on the show, let's flip our perspective on this. What if instead of thinking about how these algorithms are not like the human...