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by ClumsyPilot 628 days ago
> Modeling a human brain, a cephalopod brain and a corvid brain aren’t even mutually exclusive

Take an existing implementation, ChatGPT4 or whatever - is it closer to a brain of a rat or of Albert Einstein?

If you are not sure, then, we, it’s just have some sort of intelligence, not ‘model of a human brain’.

I would wager it’s closer to a rat.

Also the phrase implies that we understand the difference between human brain vs brain of an elephant. For some reason humans are more capable, it’s not just size. At the moment we don’t understand.
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echoangle 628 days ago
It’s probably closest to modeling a housefly, but that doesn’t mean it’s not also a model of a human brain. Being a model doesn’t require that it exactly captures every aspect and scale, it means that it tries to approximate the working principle. Just like a SIR model doesn’t really model how an infection in an organism works, but it still models infection behavior of COVID between humans.
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