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> I find it difficult to understand why the brain couldn’t be just an optimised form of these LLMs Axiomatically, Brains can't depended in their function on so
by ClumsyPilot 4y ago
> I find it difficult to understand why the brain couldn’t be just an optimised form of these LLMs
Axiomatically, Brains can't depended in their function on something they invented.
People were hunting and skinning animals before learning to speak.
> in a world of flat-earthers and truthers, why is the bar for general intelligence being set so high
well, firstly, if you as a business are offering "here is an API to our AI, it has the intelligence of a drunk conspiracy nut" maybe that is not a viable business.
Second, there is surprising ability of human mind to go to work, do complicated tasks, drive a car, and still believe in dumb shit.
- doctor_eval 4y agoMy point is that a lot of debate surrounding LLMs is based around the idea that the brain appears to have structures that are innate to language, but that LLMs don't (or at least, not to the same degree; ISTM that tokenisation is one such trick). And to me, this means that there may exist further mathematical optimisations that the brain is using that LLM's don't. Making it likely that we will some day be able to encode LLMs in less space/energy. At which time I suppose we'll be told that LLMs can't be intelligent for some other reason.