Chinese researchers claim to have found evidence that large language models (LLMs) can comprehend and process natural objects like human beings. This, they suggest, is done spontaneously even without being explicitly trained to do so.
According to the researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and South China University of Technology in Guangzhou, some AIs (like ChatGPT or Gemini) can mirror a key part of human cognition, which is sorting information.
Their study, published in Nature Machine Intelligence, investigated whether LLM models can develop cognitive processes similar to those of human object representation. Or, in other words, to find out if LLMs can recognize and categorize things based on function, emotion, environment, etc.
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