Dr. Michael Kilgard
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And everybody learns this is the right answer.
And it threads through the entire network.
Right and wrong is told to every single neuron in the network.
It's something called gradient descent.
And that process...
of improving the network, making it better and better and better at predicting has led to the revolution we've seen in artificial intelligence.
What's cool is that our network is cooler.
It's way bigger.
ChatGPT is 540 billion weights.
We're 150 trillion.
So that makes us 500 times, each of us, 500 times bigger in scale.
And instead of requiring huge amounts of energy, a light bulb is all it takes.
Eat a hamburger a day, eat plenty of food, you can learn all day long with that amount of energy.
There's not that much energy in a hamburger.
And that's miraculous.
And so I think there's a lot of worry that when we learn about the brain, it will devalue humanity.
We'll be less impressive.
We'll be less exciting.
I've just seen the opposite my whole career.
If we were just genes.