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hackyhacky • yesterday at 7:59 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

> the human brain is a lot more complex with a lot more sensory inputs

How are you measuring complexity here? How are you measuring inputs? Your average llm is trained on a corpus that vastly exceeds the amount of data I could read in my lifetime.


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seki285 • yesterday at 9:17 PM

>How are you measuring complexity here?

In terms of how it functions, because no matter how much data you feed an LLM it's still predicting tokens. That makes it incapable of any thought.

>Your average llm is trained on a corpus that vastly exceeds the amount of data I could read in my lifetime.

But that doesn't mean they are useless, they are good at consuming large amounts of data and collating it.

I don't know how correct I am but that's my understanding and it won't change, I feel pretty confident in my simplified view of things because the basics are still there.

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hungryhobbit • yesterday at 9:47 PM

Complexity != breadth. The human brain is MASSIVELY more complex than any LLM!

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