Human processing is very interesting and should likely lead to more improvements (and more understanding of human thought!)
Seems to me humans are very good at pattern matching, as a core requirement for intelligence. Not only that, we are wired to enjoy it innately - see sudoku, find Waldo, etc.
We also massively distill input information into short summaries. This is easy to see by what humans are blind to: the guy in a gorilla suit walking through a bunch of people passing a ball around, or basically any human behavior magicians use to deceive or redirect attention. We are mombarded with information constantly. This is the biggest difference between us and LLMs as we have a lot more input data and also are constantly updating that information - with the added feature/limitation of time decay. It would be hard to navigate life without short term memory or a clear way to distinguish things that happened 10 minutes ago from 10 months ago. We don't fully recall each memory of washing the dishes but junk the vast, vast majority of our memories, which is probably the biggest shortcut our brains have over LLMs.
Then we also, crucially, store these summaries in memory as connected vignettes. And our memory is faulty but also quite rich for how "lossy" it must be. Think of a memory involving a ball from before the age of 10 and most people can drum up several relevant memories without much effort, no matter their age.
Seems to me humans are very good at pattern matching, as a core requirement for intelligence. Not only that, we are wired to enjoy it innately - see sudoku, find Waldo, etc.
We also massively distill input information into short summaries. This is easy to see by what humans are blind to: the guy in a gorilla suit walking through a bunch of people passing a ball around, or basically any human behavior magicians use to deceive or redirect attention. We are mombarded with information constantly. This is the biggest difference between us and LLMs as we have a lot more input data and also are constantly updating that information - with the added feature/limitation of time decay. It would be hard to navigate life without short term memory or a clear way to distinguish things that happened 10 minutes ago from 10 months ago. We don't fully recall each memory of washing the dishes but junk the vast, vast majority of our memories, which is probably the biggest shortcut our brains have over LLMs.
Then we also, crucially, store these summaries in memory as connected vignettes. And our memory is faulty but also quite rich for how "lossy" it must be. Think of a memory involving a ball from before the age of 10 and most people can drum up several relevant memories without much effort, no matter their age.