Comment by nomel

> For the human brain, there is no "loop centre" in the brain.

There are definitely cognitive feedback loops: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11903256/

Is your argument that, because they're external to the Llm, rather than integrated, they don't count, not even in a practical sense?

I think the result of the system is all that's important. Where/how it's implemented doesn't matter for practical results.

If the argument here is that LLM don't have this built in, you should know that nobody has a practical use for plain LLMs these days. Nobody uses them this way, except for debug. All interesting use is through some kind of harness, with all sorts of systems bolted on. I think these conversations are only meaningful in this "agent" context that people actually use LLM, where they stop when they think they're done.

LLM don't have a some self contained loop, like we do, sure. Who cares though. The actual AI system that we use every day definitely do.