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I do believe that this is the trade off. We are more efficient but slower in terms of thinking (at the same level of intelligence). Some animals go much further
by xyzsparetimexyz 2mo ago
I do believe that this is the trade off. We are more efficient but slower in terms of thinking (at the same level of intelligence). Some animals go much further in terms of that trade off, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portia_(spider) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portia_(spider) for example.
- freakynit 2mo agoJust checked wikipedia page... they have like 100K neurons only.. wtf!!! How can nature cramp all senses, including spatial, motion, life maintenance and general thinking into just 100K neurons?
- levocardia 2mo agoA lot of the low level stuff is outsourced to biochemistry: the physical properties of proteins, and the various self-regulating biochemical systems of an animal, can "encode" a lot of intelligence, easing up on the computational demands of the brain proper.
- freakynit 2mo agoHmm... is there something that can estimate how many bits of information in portia, each neuron+synapse combination might be encoding?
- madaxe_again 2mo ago100k is already a lot. Plenty of insects get by with a couple of thousand, and pack a whole bunch of complex behaviour, including flight, into that.
- tesnorindian 2mo agoOur brain is more like a MoE model activating only a few neurons for specific activities making it more efficient unlike a dense model activating all the params. Also brain produces quality tokens @ 3.3 tps instead of fast generating hallucinated tokens by certain models. Thus MTP can produce low quality tokens at 2x speed. Patience pays.