Re: Coming Singularity

2024-03-29 Thread Russell Standish
On Fri, Mar 29, 2024 at 09:55:28AM -0400, John Clark wrote: > On Thu, Mar 28, 2024 at 9:27 PM Russell Standish > wrote: >   > > >"So to compare apples with apples - the human brain contains around 700  > trillion (7E14) synapses" > > > I believe 700 trillion is a more than generous est

Re: Coming Singularity

2024-03-29 Thread Jason Resch
On Fri, Mar 29, 2024, 1:42 AM Dylan Distasio wrote: > I think we need to be careful with considering LLM parameters as analogous > to synapses. Biological neuronal systems have very significant > differences in terms of structure, complexity, and operation compared to > LLM parameters. > > Pers

Re: Coming Singularity

2024-03-29 Thread John Clark
On Thu, Mar 28, 2024 at 9:27 PM Russell Standish wrote: > * >"So to compare apples with apples - the human brain contains around > 700 trillion (7E14) synapses"* I believe 700 trillion is a more than generous estimate of the number of synapses in the human brain, but I'll let it go. *>"which