human brain
3 statements across 2 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Aug 24, 2023 by Jakob Uszkoreit · across every show →
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Aug 24, 2023
Uszkoreit: Human learning is fine-tuning, while evolution is pre-training
“But I think that's because we confuse fine tuning and pre-training. Pre-training is all of evolution. And then basically you arrive at this thing that It's maybe doing something that's completely, in a certain sense, a completely irrelevant task at first, but …”
Aug 24, 2023 negative
Uszkoreit: Brains lack excess compute for high-bandwidth human augmentation
“I'm very bullish on human augmentation in the very long term, but it's one that I don't see intuitively. I think looking at our brains, even just physically, they seem to be very focused, and this is not surprising, on our IO. And why would there somewhere in …”
Sep 5, 2024 positive
Karpathy: Transformers are a more efficient system than the human brain
“I think transformers are actually better than the human brain in a bunch of ways. I think they're actually a lot more efficient system. And the reason they don't work as good as the human brain is mostly data issue, roughly speaking, is the first order approxi…”