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What, if anything, do AIs understand? (with ChatGPT Co-Creator Ilya Sutskever)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
The Universal Approximation of Neural Networks
There is truth to what you say on some level, universal approximation of neural networks. So even if a human neuron does something really complicated, as far as we can tell, there's no particular reason that that couldn't be approximated to an arbitrary degree of accuracy by a neural net. Maybe instead of calling it universal approximation, it might be better to call it universal simulation. Right. Well, you can literally say, hey, let's imagine a truly gigantic artificial neural network where groups of what over neurons with 100,000 connections between them each corresponds to a biological neuron and now this whole system can simulate a large number of biological neurons. Do you see what I mean?
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