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by vatsachakrvthy 238 days ago
Great work by the authors!

But... As Karpathy stated on the Dwarkesh podcast, why do we need brain inspired anything? As Chollet says a transformer is basically a tool for differentiable program synthesis. Maybe the animal brain is one way to get intelligence, but it might actually be easier to achieve in-silica, given the faster computational ability and higher reproducibility of calculations