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kind of a moot point if you can't get your brain to not do everything else. I think it's a fun comparison, even if it's not a 100% equivalence.
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Right, I can do the talked about ~3 tok/sec output and drive a car, hold my bladder, and eat chips at the same time.

Take that, Jalapeno!

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For what it's worth, LLMs don't really suffer from incontinence, so at least that part is pretty much a solved problem.
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They sometimes leak their system prompt
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So why are their water cooling systems filled with leak detectors? /s
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And the brain is literally only producing electrochemical signals.

I don’t see how tokens can’t produce speech or track metabolic needs. You can talk to chatgpt can’t you? Or do you mean literally talking? Because that’s not a brain function, that’s the mouth, vocal chords, and lungs.

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> I don’t see how tokens can’t produce speech or track metabolic needs.

It probably could, but the point is this would require additional tokens, blowing up the comparison. The token output of LLMs and "token output" of speech are simply at different abstraction levels. Hence my comparison to the LLM brain driving the robot harness to produce speech etc. This would be more comparable, and also look significantly worse than "only" the 22x less efficient number.

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