Other animals don't have our advanced language. In fact it is the lack of language transmission that keeps them down. What I am arguing is that we're pretty limited individually, only together, and with plenty of time, do we get so smart.
LLMs learning from the same text and gaining human like capabilities shows just how much of intelligence is crystalized in culture. If it works without brains, then brains were not the essential ingredient.
Humans without culture would need 10,000 years or more to recover, and have to pay the same price as the first time around. Culture is smarter than us.
LLMs learning from the same text and gaining human like capabilities shows just how much of intelligence is crystalized in culture. If it works without brains, then brains were not the essential ingredient.
Humans without culture would need 10,000 years or more to recover, and have to pay the same price as the first time around. Culture is smarter than us.