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

Not yet. Maybe I'll still be alive when we figure that one out. For now, the most advanced brain surgery I'm aware of is to cure drug addicts of their addiction by scanning their brains while showing them images of drugs and paraphernalia to find where it's located, and the using ultrasound to operate on that region.

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overfeed 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Humans do something more impressive: we indirectly figure out what the wrong weights are and correct them - just by talking and/or drawing. Theory of mind is our unreplicated super-power.

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galaxyLogic 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		And you can teach another person to make herpes virus.

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js8 4 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 4 hours 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.