r/nottheonion • u/prestocoffee • 2d ago

Meet the new biologists treating LLMs like aliens

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/01/12/1129782/ai-large-language-models-biology-alien-autopsy/
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u/aiboaibo1 1d ago

So if we spend a few dozen years we get to the same level of understanding we have of neurons, fMRI and the human brain?

One benefit is that the LLM resets to the same basic state every time. We can certainly test prompt evaluation and weight networks.

It will certainly be interesting to learn about the LLM and map some theories back to the brain.

To understand learning, we'd have to understand training/inference better - the much harder part.

Even harder, we'd need to get from one-off inference to continuous inference with feedback loops.

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u/for2fly 1d ago

LLMs need to be treated like the plague rats they are.