Comment by tim333
4 days ago
Humans are quicker at picking up patterns than LLMs though, like I think an example if you can show a human who hasn't seen one, one picture of a dalmatian and then ask them to spot them in other images they can do it straight away whereas LLMs need many examples. Which doesn't mean we have an innate knowledge of dalmations, just that we pick up patterns quickly.
I think you've almost reached the point where we agree. Yes, something in our neural architecture is good at picking up certain patterns. That's innate.
If you want to look at another area: there's a good chance the fusiform face area is hard-wired for face recognition.