As someone who knows a thing or two about biology I think LLMs strip away >90% of what makes animals think.
As a technologist, I have to remind everyone that AI is not intelligence. It’s a word prediction/statistical machine. It’s guessing at a surprisingly good rate what words follow the words before it.
It’s math. All the way down.
We as humans have simply taken these words and have said that it is “intelligence”.
silverneedle@lemmy.ca 7 hours ago
unpossum@sh.itjust.works 8 hours ago
As another technologist, I have to remind everyone that unless you subscribe to some rather fringe theories, humans are also based on standard physics.
Which is math. All the way down.
HereIAm@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
I agree, the maths argument is not a good one. While a neural network is perhaps closer to what a brain is than just a CPU (or a clock, as it was compared to in he olden days), it would be a very big mistake to equate the two.
xep@discuss.online 8 hours ago
What maths do our memories follow? What about consciousness?
xploit@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Obligatory xkcd… we’re just meatbags somewhere to the left Purity
On a more serious note, there’s plenty to explore there and there are some potentially interesting links to quantum physics and stuff in our brain, as well as how certain drugs can completely disrupt our consciousness (ever had an operation?) and how it could link up. But there is obviously no definitive answer.
At best consciousness is whatever flavour of philosophical interpretation/explanation you like at any given time.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 4 hours ago
Philosopher: looks at the mathematician…