Parrots pack twice as many neurons as primate brains of the same mass

Re:Parrots pack twice as many neurons as primate brains of t... by dinfinity on Tuesday March 31, 2026 @04:46AM (#47584433)

Complexity does not require intelligence. Modern computers (even without AI) and technological systems do incredibly complex things and I'm quite sure you would not call those systems (again, without AI) intelligent.

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Re:Parrots pack twice as many neurons as primate brains of t... by gf000 on Tuesday March 31, 2026 @07:20AM (#47585728)

There is a difference between a problem being complex and you try to find a solution to it (hard), vs a program being complex. The latter is trivial to execute, but that is entirely different from analysing it.

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Re:Parrots pack twice as many neurons as primate brains of t... by dinfinity on Tuesday March 31, 2026 @11:38AM (#47588985)

So are animals trivially executing a complex program or are they 'analyzing' a complex problem?

LLMs can (more often) successfully find solutions for far more complex problems than animals can. So where does that leave us?

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