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Yes, I think the scale that the LLMs operate at makes them interesting and different more than anything else. It's not really a new idea. There's a theory goin
by eli 3y ago
Yes, I think the scale that the LLMs operate at makes them interesting and different more than anything else. It's not really a new idea.
There's a theory going back decades that consciousness is an emergent property and that if we could build a neural network in a lab that was big and complex enough it would become conscious. (Not really sure I buy it, but it's interesting)
- mannykannot 3y agoYes - emergence is the relatively straightforward observation that large systems can have complex features that are not discernible at the detailed level. My go-to example is Darwinian fitness, which is not discernible at the atomic level. The trickiest part of making a large neural network conscious would be in how you train it. Our brains have been trained by a half-billion years of evolution since the first neurons emerged, and while evolution is slow, that's still a long time.