Ask HN: Anyone working on something better than LLMs?

Re:Ask HN: Anyone working on something better than LLMs? by BugsJustFindMe on Friday May 10, 2024 @04:43PM (#40323611)

> it's shockingly unintuitive how a simple process scaled enormously can lead to this much practical intelligence

A biological neuron doesn't do much. On its own, a simple process. Yet when you put a 100 billion of them together in the right 1000-connected configuration you get a human brain.

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone working on something better than LLMs? by riffic on Friday May 10, 2024 @05:43PM (#40324070)

biological neurons are only found in humans? what a waste.

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone working on something better than LLMs? by xucian on Saturday May 11, 2024 @11:27AM (#40328684)

good point, but replace neuron with perceptron and human brain with neural net

here's the catch: neurons work with over 100 types of neurotransmitters [1], they're quite complex compared to a perceptron

which brings me on a tangent: I feel there's a breakthrough just around the corner, at the intersection of the 'dumb' on/off perceptron and a biologically-accurate simulated neuron. hardware will catch up too

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurotransmitter

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