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meowfaceyesterday at 7:33 AM1 replyview on HN

Hot take: even GPT-3 was not a parrot. Skeptics have never properly internalized that the fundamental operation is basically irrelevant to the gestalt. Humans are not parrots yet neurons likely also largely operate via predictive processing.


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farfatchedyesterday at 10:05 AM

I agree, and was influenced by this, which discusses it more: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/next-token-predictor-is-an-...