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No. The mouse would just be a mouse. It wouldn't learn anything, because it's a mouse. It might chew on some of the books. Meanwhile, transformers do learn things, so there is obviously more to it than just the quantity of data.

(Why spend a mouse? Just sit a strawberry in a library, and if the hypothesis holds that the quantity of data is the only thing that matters holds, you'll have a super intelligent strawberry)




> Meanwhile, transformers do learn things

That's the question though, do they? One way of looking at gen AI is as a highly efficient compression and search. WinRAR doesn't learn, neither does Google - regardless of the volume of input data. Just because the process of feeding more data into gen AI is named "learning" doesn't mean that it's the same process that our brains undergo.


To the extent that we know what learning is (not very!) yes they do.


No need to waste a strawberry. Just test the furniture in the library. Either you have super intelligent chairs and tables or not.


Or a pebble; for a super intelligent pebble.

“God sleeps in the rock, dreams in the plant, stirs in the animal, and awakens in man.” ― Ibn Arabi




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