I was going to use this analogy in the exact opposite way. We do have a very good understanding of how the human brain works. Saying we don't understand how the brain works is like saying we don't understand how the weather works.

If you put a million monkeys on typewriters you would eventually get shakespeare is exactly why LLM's will succeed and why humans have succeeded. If this weren't the case why didn't humans 30000 years ago create spacecraft if we were endowed with the same natural "gift".

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almosthere 3 days ago | parent [-]

Yeah no, show me one scientific paper that says we know how the brain works. And not a single neuron because that does absolute shit towards understanding thinking.

	▲	KoolKat23 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		This is exactly why I mentioned the weather. A scientific paper has to be verifiable, you should be able to recreate the experiment and come to the same conclusion. It's very very difficult to do with brains with trillions of parameters and that can't be controlled to the neuron level. Nothwithstanding the ethical issues. We don't have a world weather simulator that is 100% accurate either given the complex interplay and inability to control the variables i.e. it's not verifiable. It'd be a bit silly to say we don't know why it's going to rain at my house tomorrow. Until then it is a hypothesis, and we can't say we know even if the overwhelming evidence indicates that in fact that we do know.