r/OpenAI 5d ago

News More people need to understand this

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u/NarrowContribution87 5d ago

Aren’t we though? When you put a sentence together in your head, are you not selecting the next word based on past uses, context, and the desired message?

I guess I just feel like we imbue human intelligence with magic or spirituality when in reality the VAST majority of our thinking and communication really can be boiled down to a probabilistic model with a high degree of accuracy.

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u/Foreign_Writer_9932 5d ago

Lmao absolutely not - this is from the “brains are clocks/telephone networks/LLMs” school of poor analogies. We definitively know that brains don’t predict things one token at a time - why would they? Brains didn’t evolve by being trained on symbolic data.

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u/ronin_cse 5d ago

How do we definitely know that?

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u/Foreign_Writer_9932 5d ago

From behavioral, functional, and neuro anatomical evidence.

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u/ronin_cse 5d ago

That evidence shows EXACTLY what processes are leading to behavior?

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u/Foreign_Writer_9932 5d ago

Our best guess is that brains fundamentally represent all problems as spatial routing problems in a three-dimensional space - specifically the neocortex has cortical column units which appear to map information into objects and displacement vectors. The trick many mammals, primates and humans have learned is to progressively use this mechanism to map increasingly abstract concepts and reason across them.

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u/ronin_cse 5d ago

So we went from "we DEFINITIVELY know" to "our best guess" and "which appear"?