Comment by sdenton4

1 year ago

Of course, it would be easy to put such questions together, and I'm sure the LLM would do fine with them - there's a massive amount of human text about human relationships.

One difference, as in all ml training, is interactivity. Looking at ape studies, knowing the relationships is partly diagnostic, but it's also about planning and competition. And that competitive/adaptive aspect is what is what looks like a real evolutionary driver. If you can understand, navigate, and manipulate relationships successfully, you get more mating opportunities. Doing /that/ well involves both reasoning and long term planning, both of which are apparent in chimps.

A good book on this topic is 'are we smart enough to understand how smart animals are' by Frans de Waal.