Human vs AI Learning

Humans don’t train on the entire contents of the Internet, so i’d wager that they do learn differently

Only if training data is limited by what you can print in a book. Human beings are trained by being in the world. When a baby puts it fingers in it's mouth it knows something AI doesn't.

It's not a counterexample. Your 16-year old human has millions of years of evolution into its brain. That's a lot of pre-training data.

Observing how children need a fairly limited amount of "learning examples" or "training sets" to learn that a cat is a cat, for instance, remains one of the most solid argument convincing me that AI fundamentally is not reproducing what actually happens in human brains.

Well it's not that surprising when you consider that the training data for your daughter's neural network is being generated by a network of the same architecture which has been optimized to do so. We are not just learning machines, we are teaching machines. The rough drawing of a lion is your distillation of the various visual features which you consider to be hallmarks of something being a lion. Your description of the difference between lions and tigers is a summary of the features

"Learning" is what humans can do. LLMs can't do that.

Humans recollect on what they have been trained on as well. I'm not seeing the tangible difference.

Why not?Humans learn based on human curated data too.School is not natural. Our whole env is neither. Babies can't survive.I would even go so far to say that the potential model a LLM would create internally might not be that far away of that of a human.And segment anything was just announced. The performance of zero shot systems is tremendous.It's not far fetched to assume that chatgpt combined with segment anything together would allow it to create an even more accurat

OK, rephrase the question to "Does the way we've programmed computers to learn happen to resemble the way that humans learn?"

Almost everything we learn in schools, universities, most jobs, history, news, hackernews, etc is literally human-generated text. Our brains have an efficient structure to learn language, which has evolved over time, but the processes of actually learning languages happens after you are born, based on human-generated text/voice. Things like balance/walking, motion control, speaking (physical voice control), other physical things are trained on sensory data, but there's no reason L