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0 pointsCuriouslyC1y ago0 comments

1. Deep blue isn't a LLM. I don't care how well you train a LLM, it's not going to be more efficient than an optimally trained human, not even close. It's actually arrogant as hell to assume that we can achieve a higher level of energy efficiency than billions of years of evolution, particularly so early in the game. 2. Chess is a closed form system with a finite and relatively small number of position compared with the real world.

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eru1y ago

> It's actually arrogant as hell to assume that we can achieve a higher level of energy efficiency than billions of years of evolution, particularly so early in the game.

You are right that LLMs are still far off from the performance of the human brain. Both in absolute terms, and also relative to the power used.

However, I don't see anything arrogant here. We have lots of machines that can do many tasks more energy efficient (and better) than humans. Both mechanical and intellectual tasks.

CuriouslyCOP1y ago

It's not arrogance to think you can create a tool that does one thing the brain does better than the brain for less power. It's arrogance to think that you can do everything the brain does for less power. Living organisms have been relentlessly honed for the ability to efficiently solve varied problems across ~10^40 experiments over the age of the earth. If some marginally intelligent monkeys think they can build an error corrected, digital system that encompasses all of that functionality while using less power, I'd say that's obviously arrogance, particularly if it hasn't been the subject of a civilizational drive for a few millennia already.

eru1y ago

> Living organisms have been relentlessly honed for the ability to efficiently solve varied problems across ~10^40 experiments over the age of the earth.

Evolution has been optimising them for creating descendants, not general problem solving with minimum energy expenditure.

No one expects that LLMs can solve all problems: they can't. They can only predict text, nothing else. They can't fight off a virus infection or evade a lion. Specifically, LLMs can't reproduce at all either, yet alone efficiently. Reproduction is what evolution is all about.

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eru1y ago

> It's actually arrogant as hell to assume that we can achieve a higher level of energy efficiency than billions of years of evolution, particularly so early in the game.

You are right that LLMs are still far off from the performance of the human brain. Both in absolute terms, and also relative to the power used.

However, I don't see anything arrogant here. We have lots of machines that can do many tasks more energy efficient (and better) than humans. Both mechanical and intellectual tasks.

CuriouslyCOP1y ago

eru1y ago

> Living organisms have been relentlessly honed for the ability to efficiently solve varied problems across ~10^40 experiments over the age of the earth.

Evolution has been optimising them for creating descendants, not general problem solving with minimum energy expenditure.

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