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by kingsleyopara 731 days ago
What often gets overlooked in these discussions is how much of the human brain is hardwired as a consequence of millions of years of evolution. Approximately 85% of human genes are used to encode the structure of the brain [0]. I find this particularly impressive when I consider how complex the rest of the body is. To relate this to LLMs, I'm tempted to think this is more like pre-training rather than straightforward model design.

[0] https://www.nature.com/articles/tp2015153

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Understand that the genes that encode the structure of the brain do a lot of other things as well.