alt Hacker News>Most of evolution was us running around just killing stuff and eating and having sex.
Tell Boston Dynamics how to do that.
Mice inherited brain from their ancestors. You might think you don't need a working brain to reason about math, but that's because you don't know how thinking works, it's argument from ignorance.
You've missed the point entirely.
People argue that humans have had the equivalent of training a frontier LLM for billions of years.
But training a frontier LLM involves taking multiple petabytes of data, effectively all of recorded human knowledge and experience, every book ever written, every scientific publication ever written, all of known maths, science, encylopedias, podcasts, etc. And then training that for millions of years worth of GPU-core time.
You cannot possibly equate human evolution with LLM training, it's ridiculous.
Our "training" time didn't involve any books, maths, science, reading, 99.9999% of our time was just in the physical world. So you can quite rationally argue that our brains ability to learn without training is radically better and more efficient that the training we do for LLMs.
Us running around in the jungle wasn't training our brain to write poetry or compose music.