Comment by wizzwizz4

We don't understand human brains well enough to answer this question specifically: if we understood the mechanisms of the human brain, we could replicate them in software, and AI would be that much more advanced. We know that real human neurons don't work at all like artificial neural networks, but that isn't a proof: phonons aren't bosons or fermions (their spin isn't well-defined), yet a sonic black hole is a useful model for Hawking radiation.

So, I'll provide an example: humans can learn to do mathematics. LLMs cannot. This example is particularly galling because there are computer programs that can do (some, limited) mathematics: those operate largely by brute-force, yet can solve more mathematics problems using fewer resources than LLMs.