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Stephen Downes

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The main point of this post is to introduce the elemental cognition (EC) AI platform, "whose architecture follows human biology by separating its natural language components from its reasoning, problem solving engine." In this, argues the author, the architecture functions analogously with the human brain, treating language as a communications tool only, while actual cognitive functions are handled in sub-symbolic neural mechanisms (characterized here as "multiple precise logical and mathematical methods"). I think this is a good way to treat large language models (LLM) like chatGPT generally - as communications interfaces, not reasoning devices.

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