The End of AI Frontiers

Large language models remain far less efficient than biological brains at learning, representing knowledge, and planning, the post argues. A child hears roughly one token per second, reaching a billion tokens only after 31 years, while GPT-4-class models reportedly use four orders of magnitude more data. The Phi model series, trained on 10 trillion tokens, still trails GPT-4 along most axes. A Portia spider plans prey-catching behavior with a brain a million times smaller than a human's, and squirrels recall cached food after months, suggesting that existing models may be far less representationally and memory efficient.

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