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It's describing an LLM. When we start to lose our minds the unguarded core functionality of the system becomes more and more exposed. And as it becomes more ex
by kilgnad 4y ago
It's describing an LLM.
When we start to lose our minds the unguarded core functionality of the system becomes more and more exposed. And as it becomes more exposed it starts to look like chatGPT.
Because as much as we don't like to admit it, maybe chatGPT does model a core aspect of human cognition.
- herval 4y agoEvery new technology is always used as an analogy to describe how the brain functions. The brain is "a series of pipes", "a series of cogs", "an eletro-mechanical machine", "a computer", "a series of programs", "GANs", now "an LLM". I get a feeling it's as accurate a comparison with LLMs than with everything before.
- FrustratedMonky 4y agoa clock
- kzrdude 4y agoEvery model is wrong but some are useful
- JoshCole 4y agoWhile I’m not saying positively that LLM are the way a brain works, it is worth noticing that the meme argument structure you are using is very often absurd because Turing Machines can be made out of all the things people usually list. People trying to accuse of category shift are very strongly overestimating the strength of that argument in much the same way that people commenting that people who thinks money were cents, nickels, pesos, and dollars are not quite managing to articulate true dissent by pointing out the letters are different.
- herval 4y agooh yes, the brain is a Turing Machine! Forgot that one too
- Kim_Bruning 4y agoWell it's definitely true that the human brain is Turing complete. (Trivial approach: It seems fairly unlikely that Alan Turing would not have been able to simulate Turing machine inside his head. :-P )
- Maursault 4y ago> Well it's definitely true that the human brain is Turing complete. That is definitely false. "In computability theory, a system of data-manipulation rules... is said to be Turing-complete... if it can be used to simulate any Turing machine." [0] A Turing machine has infinite memory; the human brain does not. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_completeness https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_completeness
- Kim_Bruning 4y agoTechnically correct, as expected from HN. Of course, the technically correct definition would limit the usefulness of the term to just the field of mathematics. Colloquially, people also say that systems that are obviously finite (due to having to exist in the real world) are also Turing complete. [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_completeness#Non-mathematical_usage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_completeness#Non-mathem... (subsection of article you quoted)
- JoshCole 4y agoNo you didn’t? You mentioned that argument many times? You can’t talk about pesos, then dollars, then yen, but pretend you forgot to talk about money.
- tbrownaw 4y agoDescribing the brain as "a computer" can't really be wrong because computers are universal. But it's also not necessarily all that useful, because, well, computers are universal.
- webmaven 4y agoMy intuition is that these analogies become increasingly accurate over time, but for relatively small values of "increasingly". That is, a human brain (or mind) is more like an LLM than like clockwork, etc., but it still isn't all that much like an LLM.
- herval 4y agoIt’s not really though - your brain has a circadian rhythm, for instance, which is closer to a clock than to an LLM.
- kilgnad 4y agoobviously he's talking about the part of the brain that matters. Nobody is comparing anything to say the part of the brain that controls your heart rate. You're just being pedantic here.
- detourdog 4y agoCould be the inverse: We could make a brain that is a series of pipes, cogs, electro,... We can only communicate technology through terms we collectively understand.
- rzzzt 4y agoA hard drive!
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- kilgnad 4y agoComments like this should be banned from HN. It's used deliberately and manipulatively to characterize the other person as "unhinged." It does not promote useful discussion and is a clear violation of the rules. I just have a lot to say, and I like to use capital letters to express it. It doesn't justify tactics like this of "chill bro". If you have a response, just say it.
- kilgnad 4y ago[flagged]
- bell-cot 4y ago> When we start to lose our minds... Look at the other end of life. Every parent knows about the very long, difficult climb, from tykes blathering noises and words, to really intelligent speech - sense of past/present/future, telling the truth, keeping promises, understanding the world, etc.
- atlantic 4y agoGood point. Well illustrated in Kubrick's 2001 Space Odyssey, when Hal's memory modules are removed one by one, and his speech patterns revert to increasingly infantilized forms.
- RACEWAR 4y ago[dead]