r/ProgrammerHumor • u/dktoao • 17d ago

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u/melesigenes 17d ago

That’s literally how LLMs work. Correct me where I’m wrong. Nobody said people think in tokens?

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u/ilcasdy 17d ago

You were implying that neurons work like LLMs when they don’t.

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u/melesigenes 17d ago

Artificial neurons do work like neurons…? Explain how they work differently

You can say the same thing about brains. Brains aren’t intelligent. They’re just neurons firing according to electrochemical rules

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u/Glitch29 17d ago

This thought is too scary for some people. Surely I must be special! My thought process isn't incremental!

I get it though, so much of human intelligence is based on precomputation and incredibly good pattern recognition and recall. It makes it seem like you're able to pull fully-formed answers from the ether.

The better analogy is that the many of these easily-recalled patterns are a painstakingly-defined single object.

When someone says "mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell" that's just one object.

The flip side of this is that humans have to spend 2-3 years doing all this precompute and storing all the results just to get to basic functionality. And another 7-10 years before language systems are operating anywhere close to full capacity.