But brains do much more than just predict tokens based on previously seen tokens. I think all the other things brains do are probably important for our intelligence.
So, LLM are just next token predictors, brains are next token predictors + many other things in addition, and that makes people still feel LLM are dumb even when they solve a lot of problems using tokens.
> brains are next token predictors
Of the vast uncertainties and philosophical exercises that we must face to bridge the chasm between where we are now, and where we will be when we understand intelligence, I can take comfort in claiming, with 100% accuracy, that our biology is not based on technology invented by Google in 2017.
> But brains do much more than just predict tokens based on previously seen tokens. I think all the other things brains do are probably important for our intelligence.
Like what?
What specific biological structure in the brain could be doing anything other than producing output as a function of 1) current electrical/chemical/thermal inputs and 2) previous electrical/chemical/thermal inputs?
LLM doesn't just produce output as a function, they are much more specific: they predict text based on text they have been trained on.
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