Tica the Sloth @ticasloth.bsky.social

I mean, as far as I understand it brains work on algorithms too.

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com [ View ] Jun 26, 2024 at 19:56 UTC

I do not know who told you this, but they were incorrect. Brains are not run on algorithms. They’re not even that much LIKE algorithms. Brains can skip steps, break rules, change rules, and even conceive of what will happen if rules are followed without actually running the process.

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donaithnen @donaithnen.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 26, 2024 at 21:21 UTC

Brains don't work on algorithms unless you define the term so loosely that it's not really a useful term anymore. Just because genAI (sometimes) produces similar results to humans does not mean that it achieves those results in the same way.

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Avram Grumer @avramg.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 26, 2024 at 20:32 UTC

Do you know the difference between an algorithm and a heuristic?

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Elizabeth Sandifer @elsandifer.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 26, 2024 at 19:51 UTC

There is no particular reason to think this. It’s one hypothesis for how human cognition works, but there’s not really any especially compelling evidence that points to it over other models of cognition.

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