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Thanks to @General_Effort@lemmy.world for the links!

Here’s a link to Caltech’s press release: https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/thinking-slowly-the-paradoxical-slowness-of-human-behavior

Here’s a link to the actual paper (paywall): https://www.cell.com/neuron/abstract/S0896-6273(24)00808-0

Here’s a link to a preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.10234

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[-] credo@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I think we understand a computer can read this text far faster than any of us. That is not the same as conscious thought though- it’s simply following an algorithm of yes/no decisions.

I’m not arguing with anything here, just pointing out the difference in what CPUs do and what human brains do.

[-] Buffalox@lemmy.world -1 points 1 day ago

a computer can read this text far faster than any of us.

I think you missed the comprehend part.

[-] credo@lemmy.world -4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

No i didn’t. Feed a book into chat GPT. You will see what fast comprehension is. I think you missed the consciousness part.

Stop being an ass.

Edit: The average person knows approximately 15-20,000 words. This is between 14 and 15 bits minimum to address every word independently. But I’m no brainologist, and I don’t know that’s how processing speech actually works. This is all just for comparison to bitwise operations.

[-] deranger@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

comprehension - the action or capability of understanding something.

LLMs don’t understand anything they read.

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