This reminds me that mankind always used the most current technological context to explain mysterious concepts, regardless of actual fitting.
How minds work is still wrongly explained through computer analogies to this day, how LLMs work is wrongly explained through sentience analogies, etc…
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in reply to Hypolite Petovan • •@Hypolite Petovan @datarama I think the reason for this is that the computer has more or less always been an attempt at artificially replicating the human mind... built without a proper understanding of how the human mind actually works.
The confusion is understandable.
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in reply to Jonathan Lamothe • • •And now we have enormous so-called neural networks that are also built without a proper understanding of how the human mind actually works!
(Personally, I think computers are at their best when they do things humans can't.)
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