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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.
Yann LeCun observes that current AI systems, while far from human-like intelligence and learning, have become useful by compensating for their lack of common sense and reasoning with vast amounts of declarative knowledge, sparking a debate on AI capabilities.
The user marvels at an AI's ability to convincingly simulate human intelligence and wisdom, referencing Dawkins' earlier comments about consciousness.