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    73 months ago

    You may be misunderstanding the bit measure here. It’s not ten bits of information, basically a single byte. It’s ten binary yes/no decisions to equal the evaluation of 1024 distinct possibilities.

    The measure comes from information theory but it is easy to confuse it with other uses of ‘bits’.

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        73 months ago

        Only when you are framing it in terms of information entropy. I think many of those misunderstanding the study are thinking of bits as part of a standard byte. It’s a subtle distinction but that’s where I think the disconnect is

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          Yes, the study is probably fine, it’s the article that fails to clarify before using it, that they are not talking about bits the way bits are normally understood.

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        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.

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

          I think you missed the comprehend part.

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            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.

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              03 months ago

              comprehension - the action or capability of understanding something.

              LLMs don’t understand anything they read.