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A human brain is nothing more than long-form autocomplete. The specifics of approach are irrelevant.
by imposter 4y ago
A human brain is nothing more than long-form autocomplete. The specifics of approach are irrelevant.
- makeworld 3y agoEveryone likes to say this, but no one seems to provide evidence. I don't believe it.
- FrustratedMonky 4y agoExactly. All the people saying LLM's aren't important because it is just auto-complete, really don't connect the dots that humans are also just auto-complete.
- ChatGTP 4y agoWhat on earth are you talking about?
- ricardobeat 3y agoOur brain excels at pattern matching. We attribute a lot of human abilities to “intelligence”, but the line between that and pattern-matching (or “autocomplete” ad it’s being referred as here) is being challenged by these latest LLMs. If it can look at a picture, explain what’s in it, and hypothesize about physics inside the picture’s environment, is it “just pattern matching”?
- shanebellone 3y ago"If it can look at a picture, explain what’s in it, and hypothesize about physics inside the picture’s environment, is it “just pattern matching”?" That's extrapolation via approximation. Computers synthesize a specification. The difference is nuanced and entirely contextual.
- ricardobeat 3y agoThose are way too broad terms for this conversation to go anywhere. The point is, what's to say the LLM is not doing "extrapolation via approximation" or some process that is analog to how we think? We barely understand how the brain works to start with.
- modriano 3y agoBut the human brain is a much more mature product (although I will concede there are still a ton of bugs to work out that we really have no idea how to repair because the product is extremely complex and still pretty fragile).
- lamp987 3y agoWhy do you think that?