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Re:Qwen2.5 Turbo extends context length to 1M tokens by vlovich123 on Tuesday November 19, 2024 @12:25AM (#42180309)
Almost all the data that humans are being trained on are how to participate in society and to have basic motor and language skills. That's what all that observation amounts to.

A student consumes only ~6 hours of relevant material a day on various in textual form (textbooks) with minimal guidance from a domain expert and some guidance from peers.

Have you read the studies backing your links? The methodology for how they come up with that estimate is highly questionable especially on its own let alone when it comes to comparing with LLMs. Domain experts in the field are pretty confident that LLMs are trained on more actual information than humans.

> If you prevent a human from being trained on this amount of data through sensory deprivation they go crazy (and hallucinate very vividly too!).

People who are deaf & blind experience a significant amount of sensory deprivation compared with the typical human but do not go crazy or start hallucinating. This suggests that your analysis is flawed. For humans communication is the important bit - as long as we have some kind of communication mechanism we can achieve quite a fair bit.

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