China’s Brain-Inspired "Darwin Monkey" AI Breakthrough Simulates Primate-Level Intelligence (thedebrief.org)
from yogthos@lemmy.ml to technology@lemmy.ml on 07 Aug 14:35
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dsilverz@calckey.world on 07 Aug 14:44 collapse

@yogthos@lemmy.ml Given enough time and a computational cluster containing countless Darwin monkeys replicated, would some of those Darwin monkeys end up writing the entire corpus of Shakespeare's works?

Zerush@lemmy.ml on 07 Aug 16:44 collapse

In few time, with few clusters. Monkeys can’t write, only hit random keys, but several monkey brains interconnected with each other, with an LLM, can. It’s more the question how many monkey brains are needed to connect to have the capability of an human brain. I don’t think that they need so much.

dsilverz@calckey.world on 07 Aug 17:28 collapse

@Zerush@lemmy.ml

Monkeys can't write, only hit random keys, but several monkey brains interconnected with each other, with an LLM, can.
In such a scenario, there'd still be a random factor behind the monkey's behaviors: less of a pure randomness, more of a Weasel Program.
how many monkey brains are needed to connect to have the capability of an human brain.
I often consider the Homo sapiens intelligence not as superior than other species, but just a different approach for problem-solving capabilities and tool-making among living beings. For instance, crows (particularly the New Caledonian crow) are well-known for exceptional intelligence, because they're not just able to use tools, they're also able to use tools to make/fix other tools (just like humans).

That said, I bet it would require less crow brains than monkey brains for human-like intelligence to emerge, despite primates being genetically closer to humans. Crows are awesome.

Zerush@lemmy.ml on 07 Aug 18:29 collapse

Anyway, irrelevant if monkey, crow or delfin brain capability in a chip is an advance which cause goosebumps.