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[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Once again, the science piles up behind my "we're just LLMs running on the mecha suit controlled by bacteria" theory

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Well neural networks (the construct LLMs use) is modelled on how neurons process information. Just in incredibly simplified form.

And I'm pretty sure most scientists agree that humans are actually a colony of many different species given how we rely on bacteria to live.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Oh, the metaphor goes further. We're not the pilot of the suit, we're not the hardware, we're not the OS of the suit, we're the AI assistant

We speak for it with the other AIs, we get called up to handle things we don't have learned behaviors for, we analyze and provide feedback - we give advice and it feels like we're making decisions, but we're not

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

We are literally 10 times more bacteria than human cells in the human body.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

"We." Are you referring to people, or is that the bacteria self-identifying as plural?

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

I appreciate your reference. :-)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

And it sounds so wholesome. If you don't know the origin