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answer = sum(n) / len(n) (lemmy.eco.br)

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 months ago (31 children)

The meme would work just the same with the "machine learning" label replaced with "human cognition."

[–] [email protected] 75 points 2 months ago (19 children)

Have to say that I love how this idea congealed into "popular fact" as soon as peoples paychecks started relying on massive investor buy in to LLMs.

I have a hard time believing that anyone truly convinced that humans operate as stochastic parrots or statistical analysis engines has any significant experience interacting with others human beings.

Less dismissively, are there any studies that actually support this concept?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (7 children)

I'd love to hear about any studies explaining the mechanism of human cognition.

Right now it's looking pretty neural-net-like to me. That's kind of where we got the idea for neural nets from in the first place.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

At every step of modern computing people have thought that the human brain looks like the latest new thing. This is no different.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Past results are no guarantee of future performance.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Not a guarantee, no. A very, very strong predictor though. You have to have some kind of evidence beyond just vibes to start making claims that this time is totally different from all the others before anyone should take you seriously.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

But claims of what future performance will be as given by people with careers, companies, and life changing amounts of money on the line are also no guarantee either.

The world would be a very different place if technology had advanced as predicted not even ten years ago.

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