This is incredibly naive with absolutely no scientific basis. There is no evidence that this is in scale of data nor scale of architecture.
There are a number of animals with larger brains in terms of both mass and total number of neurons. An African Elephant has roughly 3x the number of neurons humans have. Dolphins beat humans in total surface area. Neanderthals are estimated to have had larger brains too! It isn't mass, neurons, neuron density, surface area. We aren't just scaled up chimps.
But my point stands - our brains have evolved directly from apes brains and the main difference between them and us is brain size.
>>> What’s the main difference between an ape’s brain and a human brain? Scale.
Your argument is inconsistent. Very clearly everything isn't scale or we'd use other things besides transformers. Different architectures scale in different ways and everything has different inductive biases. No one doubts scale is important, but there's a lot more.
> An African Elephant has roughly 3x the number of neurons humans have.
An African elephant's brain is not a scaled up chimp brain in any way. African elephants have less cortical neurons than a chimp, and roughly a third of the amount that humans have.
> Dolphins beat humans in total surface area.
Animals even less related to humans and chimps, with no prehensile appendages, living in an environment where building stuff is exceedingly difficult. And of course their brains are obviously different from any great ape.
> Neanderthals are estimated to have had larger brains too!
And were just as smart as us and also had a scaled up chimp brain.
Human :: 16 :: 86
Gorilla :: 9.1 :: 33
Chimp :: 6 :: 22
African Elephant :: 5.6 :: 251
Chimps are generally considered more intelligent than gorillas.
Bottlenose Dolphins have 11-15b cortical neurons while humans are in the range 14-18 (range is measurement uncertainty). It's also worth noting these dolphins have a larger brain mass (1.6 kg) and larger cortical surface (3700 cm2) than humans (1.3 kg and 2400 cm2, respectively).
> with no prehensile appendages, living in...
So more than scale. Glad we agree. Seems you also agree that architecture matters too.
