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Thanks for those numbers! They are frankly scary. Six millions years of power for a single brain is one year of power for six million brains. The knowledge tha

by dsign 4y ago

Thanks for those numbers! They are frankly scary. Six millions years of power for a single brain is one year of power for six million brains. The knowledge that ChatGPT contains is far higher than the knowledge a random sample of six million people have produced in a year. With that said, I think we should apply ML and the results of the bitter lesson to things which are more intractable than searching the web or playing Go. Have you ever talked to a System's Biologist? Ask them about how anything works, and they'll start with 'oh, it's so complicated. You have X, and then Y, and then Z, and nobody knows about W. And then how they work together? Madness!"

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TeMPOraL 4y ago
> Six millions years of power for a single brain is one year of power for six million brains. The knowledge that ChatGPT contains is far higher than the knowledge a random sample of six million people have produced in a year. On the other hand, I don't think if it would be larger than that of six million people selected more carefully (though I suppose you'd have to include the costs of selection process in the tally). I also imagine it wouldn't be larger than six thousand people specifically raised and taught in coordinated fashion to fulfill this role. On the other other hand, a human brain does a lot more than learning language, ideas and conversion between one and the other. It also, simultaneously, learns a lot of video and audio processing, not to mention smell, proprioception, touch (including pain and temperature), and... a bunch of other stuff (I was actually surprised by the size of the "human" part of the Wikipedia infobox here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Sensation_and_perception https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Sensation_and_percept...). So it's probably hard to compare to specialized NN models until we learn to better classify and isolate how biological brains learn and encode all the various things they do.
- IIsi50MHz 4y ago
  > On the other hand, > … > On the other other hand, See: "on the gripping hand" (-:

by dsign 4y ago

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TeMPOraL 4y ago

> Six millions years of power for a single brain is one year of power for six million brains. The knowledge that ChatGPT contains is far higher than the knowledge a random sample of six million people have produced in a year. On the other hand, I don't think if it would be larger than that of six million people selected more carefully (though I suppose you'd have to include the costs of selection process in the tally). I also imagine it wouldn't be larger than six thousand people specifically raised and taught in coordinated fashion to fulfill this role. On the other other hand, a human brain does a lot more than learning language, ideas and conversion between one and the other. It also, simultaneously, learns a lot of video and audio processing, not to mention smell, proprioception, touch (including pain and temperature), and... a bunch of other stuff (I was actually surprised by the size of the "human" part of the Wikipedia infobox here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Sensation_and_perception https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Sensation_and_percept...). So it's probably hard to compare to specialized NN models until we learn to better classify and isolate how biological brains learn and encode all the various things they do.

IIsi50MHz 4y ago
> On the other hand, > … > On the other other hand, See: "on the gripping hand" (-: