Humans and LLMs extract insights out of information differently.
- Humans and LLMs extract insights out of information differently.
- Humans don't just passively receive information; they interact with the world to tune their information streams.
- They can do experiments and see how the world reacts.
- That allows identifying not just correlation but causation.
- "I did X and Y was the result."
- If you only passively receive a stream of information, you can only extract correlation.
- Humans are not great at extracting data from samples because we are compute bound, but we can do experiments.
- Physics is insanely parallelized; we can do an experiment and watch how the universe responds and then note it down.
- Computers still can't parallelize physical calculations to the extent that the universe can.