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I am not convinced that Chat GPT could "think" if it had as many neurons or parameters as a human brain, and got as much training. I would still be interested

by jokoon 4y ago

I am not convinced that Chat GPT could "think" if it had as many neurons or parameters as a human brain, and got as much training. I would still be interested to see what it could do, if it did, but I don't think it would really help science understand what intelligence really is. Being able to grow a plant and understand some conditions that favors it is one thing, but it's poor science. Maybe there will some progress when scientists will be able to properly simulate the brain of an ant or even a mouse, but science is not even there yet.

seydor 4y ago
> I don't think it would really help science understand what intelligence really is Neuroscience is nowhere near finding out the connectome of a whole human brain so why not, we should look into these models as hints about what our circuits do. I think what puts people off about these models is that they are clockwork: they won't even spit out anything unless you put some words in the input. But i can imagine adding a second network that includes an internal clock that continuously generates input by observing the model itself, that would be kind of like having an internal introspective monologue. Then it could be more believable that the model "thinks"