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0 pointsesafak18d ago0 comments

Do you know how the human brain works? That science is still in its infancy but that's not stopped us.

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  > Do you know how the human brain works?

To what degree of accuracy? Depending on how you answer I might answer yes but I might also answer no.

Here is a run-down of how an LLM works:

> Do you know how the human brain works? That science is still in its infancy but that's not stopped us.

Stopped us from doing what exactly?

nomel17d ago

I think a charitable interpretation of their comment is that it hasn't stopped us from practical, fruitful, use.

We didn't need an understanding of how it worked, or even a word for intelligence, let alone a definition of it, to get good practical results.

It’s a statistical gradient descent prediction machine. I never said it wasn’t useful. It absolutely isn’t smart.

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  > Do you know how the human brain works?