AI can catalogue a forest's inhabitants simply by listening
A thing stands out to me about the machine learning is their ability to recognize patterns. We all know that human brain is also well adapted to this task. So adapted in fact that it is probably one of the most fundamental, ingrained thing that we have in the lizard part of our brains.<p>For some reason, to me this kind of subconscious thing hold some special meanings. It feels like the current LLMs are actually going in the right direction to eventually emulate a conscious mind and it shows this by imitating what a mind without consciousness would look like.<p>Personally, if I have to compare the current LLMs to an organic equivalent, I would say we are at the insect level. It can respond to things, know a few surprisingly complex knowledge (spider webs), but ultimately doesn&#x27;t &quot;understand&quot; what it is doing and just robotically do what it was programmed to do.<p>Good thing is an insect to even the dumbest vertebrate is pretty far away in term of mental cognitive ability so AIs aren&#x27;t going to spontaneously gain awareness anytime soon.