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Empty framework my ass.

The fact that human brains are capable of learning things that animal brains cannot, is a clear indicator that it is already "trained" to a significant degree.

Human "learning" seems to be much more analogous to "fine tuning and memory storage/retrieval", than actual training.

Why can't a macaque teach a calculus class? Why can't its "empty" brain be taught to do something like that?

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Try raising a child with no inputs and see what it ends up doing. We don’t start “trained” at all. We just start with a neutral network architecture with no data. The difference between us and other animals is the number of neurons and the network complexity, but it doesn’t start trained to any degree. Humans do not start with any ability to talk, reason, identify objects etc.

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