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Big brain primate has big brain of primates! What a blinder of an specious insight. We don't even understand scaled up LLM let alone brains to make a meaningf
by psychphysic 4y ago
Big brain primate has big brain of primates!
What a blinder of an specious insight.
We don't even understand scaled up LLM let alone brains to make a meaningful inferences here.
It's also a disingenuous title for the linked article.
- aydyn 4y agoWe dont understand LLMs but we certainly understand matrix multiplication.
- wongarsu 4y agoWe also have a good idea of how individual neurons work, but struggle a lot with understanding brains. Both LLMs and human brains have a lot of emergent behavior, which is why our understanding the low-level primitives only provides very limited insight.
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- pfdietz 4y agoWe still don't have a good lower bound on the complexity of matrix multiplication.
- echelon 4y ago> What a blinder of an specious insight. We are on track to potentially learn there's no deep mysterious secret to human cognition. If and when we crack that, this planet will experience the technological singularity. I thought the singularity was a crackpot idea not much different from string theory in how it tries to sell itself. We were stuck in the post WWII, post globalization, smartphone incrementalism age. Now we're moving on to something exciting again. What I'm getting at is that you'll not only see more articles like this, but that collectively as a species we're going to start feeling a whole lot less special.
- toyg 4y ago> collectively as a species we're going to start feeling a whole lot less special. If that's the case, expect a massive backlash from the spiritual types, which basically means every other person. The centrality of man is essential to the abrahamic religions that dominate the planet, and other ones too will struggle to come to terms with seeing ghosts in the machine. I suspect organized religions will find ways to officially ostracize Machine Learning over the next decade. They'll form an alliance with people whose jobs are threatened, and pass laws to smother or ban research and deployment. I am not a believer in an "AI revolution" or singularity, I think they're still one step up from parlor tricks, and anyway the world can evolve as fast as it can devolve (a nuke or two and we're in the ancient world again), but it feels inevitable that we're going to experience some significant neoluddite movement very, very soon.
- echelon 4y ago> I am not a believer in an "AI revolution" or singularity Check back in 12 months. I bet my entire life -- not just the sum total of my earnings -- that this the moment humans duplicate the spark that makes us who we are. And from there, God only knows what is possible. Every day it improves. And it's not stopping.
- octopolus 4y ago> We don't even understand scaled up LLM What’s there to understand?
- WJW 4y agoThe problem is that we don't even know what might be there to understand. Since it is pretty much unknown how humans think (from a brain processing perspective), we also don't really know if the things we see in LLMs are just dumber versions of human thought processes or if they are qualitatively different.
- kaba0 4y agoLLMs literally can’t compute any complex algorithm, they can’t simulate different steps in chess to get which version is best, nor execute some non-trivial algorithm. They are nowhere near close to human intelligence.
- coldtea 4y agoYes, what is research compared to a facile HN dismisal?
- spywaregorilla 4y agoPeople really need to stop claiming that we don't know how LLMs work.