Comment by paulddraper

Comment by paulddraper 2 days ago

8 replies

As far as anyone can tell, there is virtually no similarity between brains and LLMs.

Neural nets were named such because they have connected nodes. And that’s it.

permo-w 2 days ago

this so obviously not true that I can't fathom why you would say it

  • bravesoul2 a day ago

    Matrix multiplication and some non linearities (gates) to ensure it ain't just a linear regression. Not like my brain.

    • permo-w 18 hours ago

      and yet here you are producing a string of text probabilistically related to the text I inputted into your brain

      • bravesoul2 15 hours ago

        Orthorogonal:

        1. Is the brain deterministic and lacking free will.

        2. Does a brain use matmul or something else.

        • permo-w 6 hours ago

          1. almost certainly yes

          2. completely irrelevant. GP said that LLMs share nothing in common with brains. responding probabilistically to text is something in common with brains. even if we don't want to get into the nuts and bolts of how ANNs work, the actual input/output structure is common with LLMs

  • paulddraper 2 days ago

    “Artificial Neural Networks were somewhat based off of the human brain.

    “Some of the frameworks that made LLMs what they are today are too based of our understanding of how the brain works.”

    • permo-w 2 days ago

      these quotes do not change lack of truth in the original statement

      there are far more similarities between a brain and an LLM than containing nodes

      • paulddraper 2 days ago

        I misread, I thought you said "so obviously true."

        I won't offer a rebuttal to that statement.