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This led me down a ChatGPT rabbit hole of trying to figure out how long it would take kiwis to convergently evolve into humanoids… Unrelated, I’m starting a ne

• kergonath 1y ago
  ChatGPT has no clue, you should not have bothered and instead have a read on Wikipedia. Considering that humans evolved out of what were effectively mice at the end of the Cretaceous (~62M years ago), 200M seems wildly out of proportion. Of course you’d still need the right evolutionary pressure and tweak your definition of humanoid.
  • jumploops 1y ago
    > ChatGPT has no clue Yes, and neither did I! I simply asked o3 (after learning about kiwis), if, given that our common ancestor was ~300m years old, would it be possible in the same time frame (assuming it would be). o3 vehemently disagreed: > Not impossible, <bold>just very, very unlikely.</bold> I then learned about Dollo’s law of irreversibility[0], and onto stick bugs regrowing wings, etc. Eventually we got to computational estimates for simulation of evolution, which it then got very defensive about: >“<bold>Utterly out of reach</bold> today.. ” My takeaway is that LLMs are a lot more human (thinking in the present), than one might assume an AGI to be.