> it can’t try anything and find out

Talk to an agent. It definitely learns things. Maybe not the taste of strawberry but about what is really going on in the software you are building with it.

>It definitely learns things.

By the very way this technology works they can't learn anything after training. What you think is "learning" it's just a session log written back to the context when you resume the session.

And what is written when you wake up from sleeping?

It's absolutely not the same. If you think llms and brains works the same way you clearly don't know how either works.

For a LLM learning what you wrote your last session would be update the weights with the new relationships and factual knowledge created in the session. That doesn't happen. The weights are static and fixed after training. There's no online training in the transformer architecture or any variant. If the weights don't update, the network doesn't learn. Period.

These things are a centrifuge seperating humanity into people who say things like "it definitely learns" and those who do not.