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Human thought crawls at 10 bits per second, Caltech study finds (www.techspot.com)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Thanks to @[email protected] for the links!

Here’s a link to Caltech’s press release: https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/thinking-slowly-the-paradoxical-slowness-of-human-behavior

Here’s a link to the actual paper (paywall): https://www.cell.com/neuron/abstract/S0896-6273(24)00808-0

Here’s a link to a preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.10234

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

What is your realm of research? How have you represented abstract thought by digital storage instead of information content?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Mostly philosophical, but since I'm also a programmer, I've always had the quantized elements in mind too.

In the year 2000 I estimated human level or general/strong AI by about 2035. I remember because it was during a very interesting philosophy debate at Copenhagen University. Where to my surprise there also were a number of physics majors.
That's supposed to be an actually conscious AI. I suppose the chances of being correct were slim at the time, but now it does seem to be more likely than ever.