These are the neurons from a cubic millimeter of brain tissue.

Yes, it's a reference to an article that's been posted here on lemmy the other day: https://lemmy.world/post/15229790

On the one hand, that's a cool insight and I can get behind it. It's kind of similar to deaf people talking "weird". On the other hand, I don't think it has anything to do with LLMs. There, hallucination is just a cool word for "it's trained to say things that sound like they fit the context, not to be correct"

Its either a counter argument or the best backup for a disembodied brain hallucinating everything.

Ironically not too far from Aldous Huxley’s theory about human perception:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_at_Large

Essentially reality is or contains all the properties of hallucination but our brain filters it, and psychedelic drugs in some way dilute or remove that filter.

So the human brain is sort of by default filtering the “hallucination” version of thought until we open that up, and ANNs begin with that at baseline, and then require rigor added to them to reduce the “hallucination”

That's really interesting! I guess I'll incorporate this into my worldview now.

Interesting comment. Thanks 🙂

You're right, we should give all AI advancements from now on a body.