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by tim333 249 days ago
I'm not sure we or evolution needed a theory of mind. Evolution stuck neurons together in various ways and fiddled with it till it worked without a master plan and the LLM guys seem to be doing something rather like that.
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LLM guys took a very specific layout of neurons and said “if we copy paste this enough times, we’ll get intelligence.”
mmm, no because unlike biological entities, large models learn by imitation, not by experience