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Comment by dartos

1 year ago

That’s assuming that LLMs act like brains at all.

They don’t.

Especially not with transformers.

Says who? At a fundamental level

  • At a fundamental level, brains don’t operate on floating point numbers encoded in bits.

    They have chemicals to facilitate electrochemical reactions which can affect how they respond to input. They don’t throw away all knowledge of what they just said. They change continuously, not just in fixed training loops. They don’t operate in turns.

    I could go on.

    Honestly the number of people who just heard “learning,” “neural networks,” and “memory” and assume that AI must be acting like a biological brain is insane.

    Truly a marvel of marketing.

    • Fundamentally and physically are two different things. A logic gate is a logic gate if it's in neurons or silicon. Are abacus and calculators solving different things? No.

      You're proving my point, things like them changing continuously are exactly what I mean when I say the brain is more efficient. Where there's a will theres a way and our brains are evidence that it can be done.

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