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Cubic millimetre of brain mapped in spectacular detail
(www.nature.com)
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This is exactly what I'm talking about when I argue with people who insist that an LLM is super complex and totally is a thinking machine just like us.
It's nowhere near the complexity of the human brain. We are several orders of magnitude more complex than the largest LLMs, and our complexity changes with each pulse of thought.
The brain is amazing. This is such a cool image.
I think of LLMs like digital bugs, doing their thing, basically programmed.
They're just programmed with virtual life experience instead of a traditional programmer.
Back in the early 2000s CERN was able to simulate the brain of a flat worm. Actually simulate the individual neurons firing. A 100% digital representation of a flatworm brain. And it took up an immense amount of processing capacity for a form of life that basic, far more processor intensive than the most advanced AIs we currently have.
Modern AIs don't bother to simulate brains, they do something completely different. So you really can't compare them to anything organic.
https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-put-worm-brain-in-lego-robot-openworm-connectome
2014, not early 2000s (unless you were talking about the century or something).
OpenWorm project, not CERN.
And it was run on Lego Mindstorm. I am no AI expert, but I am fairly certain that it is not "far more processor intensive than the most advanced AIs we currently have".
Maybe you should be a little less sure of your "facts", and listen to what the world has to teach you. It can be marvelous.