Why is it so surprising? Humans can make compilers that are better coders than they themselves are.

Humans cannot teach another person calculus via manual brain surgery, though.

The closest thing to this would seem to be Mad Cow Disease. Cows eat the brains of other cows, and their brains go bonkers.

	▲	zardo 33 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		And you can teach another person to make herpes virus.

js8 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

LLM is just a computer program, we have binary code for it. The human brain is not. It would be unethical to even attempt that.

	▲	ben_w an hour ago \| parent [-]
		> It would be unethical to even attempt that. Then pick a smaller organic brain which doesn't have the ethical problem. The closest we would know about how to teach a honey bee calculus, is to train an LLM, then stick around a billion tiny electrodes into the honey bee and do Hebbian learning to rewire it completely to match the LLM, which would likely completely erase anything the honey bee had learned, or it might not because we are missing something fundamental with Hebbian theory and (AFAICT, I'm not a neuroscientist) we don't all agree on what.