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>We have an existence proof from biology in the form of natural intelligence that much greater efficiency is possible.

It's only a proof that it's possible with 18+ years of training.

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In certain ways my dog has more generalized intelligence than any LLM, and I trained her in only a few months with a modest investment in dog treats.
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>from biology ... much greater efficiency is possible

Those are much more specialized models with pretty mediocre tokens per second.

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Perhaps tokens is a dead end?
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Perhaps! But perhaps whatever human brains use instead of tokens is not as amenable to scaling or copying.
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