It can be simultaneously true that human understanding is just a firing of neurons but that the architecture and function of those neural structures is vastly different than what an LLM is doing internally such that they are not really the same. Encourage you to read Apple’s recent paper on thinking models; I think it’s pretty clear that the way LLMs encode the world is drastically inferior to what the human brain does. I also believe that could be fixed with the right technical improvements, but it just isn’t the case today.
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Do you yourself really understand, or are you just depolarizing neurons that have reached their threshold?
It can be simultaneously true that human understanding is just a firing of neurons but that the architecture and function of those neural structures is vastly different than what an LLM is doing internally such that they are not really the same. Encourage you to read Apple’s recent paper on thinking models; I think it’s pretty clear that the way LLMs encode the world is drastically inferior to what the human brain does. I also believe that could be fixed with the right technical improvements, but it just isn’t the case today.
He doesn't know the answer to that and neither do you.
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Can you please not post like this to HN? It's against the site rules (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html).
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Fair comment.