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“A human brain is just like a dog’s brain, only with more neural pathways.” True, perhaps, but largely pointless: at some point neural complexity results in a
by marcusb 3y ago
“A human brain is just like a dog’s brain, only with more neural pathways.” True, perhaps, but largely pointless: at some point neural complexity results in a difference of kind, not of degree.
I’d argue the same is true of LLMs vs simpler models like Markov chains.
- candiodari 3y agoBut a human brain is also just like an elephant or whale's brain except with 1/5th of the neural pathways at best, probably less. There's a qualitative difference too.
- andoando 3y agoI think this vastly underplays animals intelligence though. There is so much focus on creating human level intelligence, but where is a robot that can learn to navigate the world like a dog or cat can?
- marcus0x62 3y agoIt was an analogy about how stupid it is to say a markov chain is “just like an LLM.”