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mort96yesterday at 4:58 PM1 replyview on HN

I'm not sure why you think you know the human brain works through predicting the next token.

It's not supernatural, I believe that an artificial intelligence is possible because I believe human intelligence is just a clever arrangement of matter performing computation, but I would never be presumptuous enough to claim to know exactly how that mechanism works.

My opinion is that human intelligence might be what's essentially a fancy next token predictor, or it might work in some completely different way, I don't know. Your claim is that human intelligence is a next token predictor. It seems like the burden on proof is on you.


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dparkyesterday at 5:05 PM

> Your claim is that human intelligence is a next token predictor.

Literally it is, at least in many of its forms.

You accepted CamperBob2’s text as input and then you generated text as output. Unless you are positing that this behavior cannot prove your own general intelligence, it seems plain that “next token generator” is sufficient for AGI. (Whether the current LLM architecture is sufficient is a slightly different question.)

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