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Semi-hard agree! I think both the "Neo-Chomskiites" and the "Humans Are Machines" crowd have it wrong: what we're seeing is something different, an unknown mech
by MilStdJunkie 4y ago
Semi-hard agree! I think both the "Neo-Chomskiites" and the "Humans Are Machines" crowd have it wrong: what we're seeing is something different, an unknown mechanism producing emergent qualities that resemble some biological cognition. I'm reminded of performing cognitive work on octopiii, as their cognition is separated by half a billion years. But dig this: compared to machine cognition, octopii are kissing cousins to our minds, coming from shared biology and chemistry. And look how weird they are. LLMs are different - not conscious, but not calculators, either, and we don't know why.
- hammyhavoc 4y agoExcept we do know why. These models are architected by human beings, they don't just come from nowhere. Just because the scale of process is enormous doesn't mean that we don't understand how they function. They run on computer hardware. This isn't a lifeform or something different, it's a computer system.