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

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (9 children)

If by "human cognition" you mean "tens of millions of improvised people manually checking and labeling images and text so that the AI can pretend to exist," then yes.

If you mean "it's a living, thinking being," then no.

[–] Schmeckinger 6 points 4 months ago (8 children)

My dude it's math all the way down. Brains are not magic.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago (6 children)

There's a lot we understand about the brain, but there is so much more we dont understand about the brain and "awareness" in general. It may not be magic, but it certainly isnt 100% understood.

[–] nBodyProblem 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

We don’t need to understand cognition, nor for it to work the same as machine learning models, to say it’s essentially a statistical model

It’s enough to say that cognition is a black box process that takes sensory inputs to grow and learn, producing outputs like muscle commands.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You can abstract everything down to that level, doesn't make it any more right.

[–] FooBarrington 2 points 4 months ago

Yes, that's physics. We abstract things down to their constituent parts, to figure out what they are made up of, and how they work. Human brains aren't straightforward computers, so they must rely on statistics if there is nothing non-physical (a "soul" or something).

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