Neil Gershenfeld
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first heard May 2023
last heard May 2023
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What makes them work
What's emerged is, it's a really interesting story.
This may be too much of a technical detail, but it has to do with function approximation.
We talked about exponentials.
A deep network...
needs an exponentially larger shallow network to do the same function.
And that exponential is what gives the power to deep networks.
But what's interesting is the sort of lessons about building these deep architectures and how to train them have really interesting echoes to how brains work.
And there's an interesting conversation that's sort of coming back of neuroscientists looking over the shoulder of people training these deep networks, seeing interesting echoes for how the brain works, interesting parallels with it.
And so I didn't say consciousness, I just said cognition, but I don't know any experimental evidence that points to anything in neurobiology that says we need quantum mechanics.
And I view the question about whether a large language model is conscious as silly in that biology is full of hacks and it works.
Mm-hmm.
there's no evidence we have that there's anything deeper going on than just this sort of stacking up of hacks in the brain.
Absolutely.
And just numerically, I said, big computations now have the degrees of freedom of the brain and they're showing a lot of the phenomenology of what we think is properties of what a brain can do.
And,
And I don't see any reason to invoke anything else.
There's an early peak at that, which is there's a misleading term, which is generative design.
Generative design is where you don't tell a computer how to design something.
You tell the computer what you want it to do.
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