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Animals are starting with a brain in a state that has been pre-trained by hundreds of millions of years of evolution.

• morkalork 4y ago
  That the pretraining can be compressed down into DNA, combined with a second source of DNA through sex, then decompressed/expressed to build a brain that wires itself up as it grows from a handful of cells, resulting in a conscious being at the end is nothing shorter of amazing. The numbers involved are also an order magnitude greater. In a human brain, there are approximately 60 trillion connections between neurons. Made with a variety neurotransmitters and regulated by a host hormones as well, not single floating point weights.
  • inciampati 4y ago
    The model "parameters" for the DNA encoded part can't be much more than about a billion. Basing this on the size of genomes and their information content (they are often repetitive).
  • api 4y ago
    Hmm... so a human is somewhere around a 60000G model as models size is currently described?