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Re:Language models can explain neurons in language models by samiskin on Tuesday May 09, 2023 @07:16PM (#35881604)
Evolution created intelligence without even being intelligent itself
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Re:Language models can explain neurons in language models by dontknowwhyihn on Tuesday May 09, 2023 @08:02PM (#35881954)
How do you know that’s true?
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Re:Language models can explain neurons in language models by candiddevmike on Tuesday May 09, 2023 @08:11PM (#35882020)
Because we eat and breath through the same tube
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Re:Language models can explain neurons in language models by _justinfunk on Tuesday May 09, 2023 @08:59PM (#35882348)
There are two tubes.
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Re:Language models can explain neurons in language models by p1esk on Tuesday May 09, 2023 @09:28PM (#35882539)
Evolution came up with the shared eating/breathing tube design because it made sense for aquatic animals (from which we evolved).
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Re:Language models can explain neurons in language models by KineticLensman on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @02:56AM (#35884471)
The trachea and oesophagus both start in the common space of the pharynx. The epiglottis stops food going down the wrong one
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Re:Language models can explain neurons in language models by hackernewds on Tuesday May 09, 2023 @09:12PM (#35882439)
we don't. which is why we choke and hiccup
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Re:Language models can explain neurons in language models by chrischen on Tuesday May 09, 2023 @08:06PM (#35881990)
Evolution is not a single orchestrator. It is merely the natural result of a simple mechanical process over a timescale that exceeds the lifetime of the common human.
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Re:Language models can explain neurons in language models by flangola7 on Tuesday May 09, 2023 @09:21PM (#35882499)
Evolution is just a description of a process, it isn't a tangible thing.
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Re:Language models can explain neurons in language models by thfuran on Tuesday May 09, 2023 @10:11PM (#35882818)
You're proposing that statistics is intelligent?
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Re:Language models can explain neurons in language models by hypertele-Xii on Tuesday May 09, 2023 @10:18PM (#35882869)
You're proposing that evolution is statistics?
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Re:Language models can explain neurons in language models by thfuran on Tuesday May 09, 2023 @10:36PM (#35882989)
Basically, yeah.
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Re:Language models can explain neurons in language models by 8bitsrule on Tuesday May 09, 2023 @11:29PM (#35883296)
Notable that the people who saw the first automatons argued whether they were alive.
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Re:Language models can explain neurons in language models by olalonde on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @01:10AM (#35883861)
What do you mean by that? And do you have a source?
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Re:Language models can explain neurons in language models by int_19h on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @03:32AM (#35884722)
People also argued that animals are mere automatons, that all their observable behavior is basically scripted, and that humans shouldn't empathize with them on those grounds. That's how vivisection etc used to be justified since at least Descartes.
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Re:Language models can explain neurons in language models by poulpy123 on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @01:49AM (#35884079)
Because evolution is random change + natural selection
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