[elcomet]

What frustrates me is when people say "neural networks cannot show intelligence because they are just a succession of linear layers", and methods that exist since the 70s". I don't understand this argument, and how this has anything to do with intelligence.

[gwoolhurme]

I’m not saying they can’t show intelligence. I am saying that the techniques are very old, throwing more hardware seems to have done wonders. It’s been surprising to see how far it’s come. I don’t think that simplifying intelligence in humans and saying we are LLMs helps the conversation. That along with that these techniques being used while they’ve clearly been improved are fairly old. From an engineering standpoint it leaves me wondering if there are not more elegant solutions. That nature actually is fairly cool, it doesn’t help the convo to downplay wetware I think.