How much of human intelligence is hardcoded into our DNA? LLMs vs humans
Summary
A discussion questioning Yann LeCun's comparison between human learning and AI, arguing that humans inherit millions of years of evolutionary pretraining hardcoded into genetics, giving babies an advanced foundation for spatial reasoning that LLMs lack.
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