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Re:Bytes Are All You Need: Transformers Operating Directly o... by pmoriarty on Sunday June 04, 2023 @06:58AM (#36184623)
"I am beginning this journey, and it takes a lot of the magic out of it.

Really what is happening is just mathematical operations: a lot of matrix multiplications, some simple non-linear functions (because linear algebra alone cannot represent all logic), some statistical stuff to stop the numbers getting out of control."

And all that happens in the human brain is "just" chemical reactions.

All that happens on the Earth is "just" chemistry.

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Re:Bytes Are All You Need: Transformers Operating Directly o... by quickthrower2 on Sunday June 04, 2023 @07:38AM (#36184815)
Also I said "Now you could argue, well it might mean "something". After all you can reduce our brains to being a big mathematical functions.

Possibly."

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Re:Bytes Are All You Need: Transformers Operating Directly o... by hombre_fatal on Sunday June 04, 2023 @01:13PM (#36187360)
Well, it’s not just an aside. It takes all the wind out of your sails. What’s interesting here is the end result, not pointing out the basic elements the same reason reducing love or consciousness to chemical reactions doesn’t take away the mystique and wonder of those things. “Heh sorry to ruin it for you all :b but it’s all just chemical reactions” just isn’t as interesting as you might have been thinking when writing that comment.
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