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A recent discussion sparked on Reddit’s Artificial Intelligence forum centers around a provocative comparison made by Bret Weinstein: the learning process of human children mirrors that of Large Language Models (LLMs). Weinstein argues that both learn by absorbing vast quantities of information, experimenting with outputs, and iteratively refining their understanding based on feedback. He suggests that we’ve inadvertently replicated, and even accelerated, this process in AI, raising the unsettling possibility that consciousness could emerge in these systems without our explicit recognition. The debate originated from a Reddit post referencing Weinstein’s comments. [Reddit Post: https://old.reddit.com/r/artificial/comments/1kjmyl8/bret_weinstein_says_a_human_child_is_basically_an/]