Digital vs. biological intelligence: an explainer

Using Notebooklm, I created a video summarizing a recent lecture by Geoffrey Hinton in Bristol, where he made several key statements:

  • We have managed to separate intelligence from its physical substrate. With biological intelligence, when the hardware dies, the intelligence dies. With digital intelligence, that does not happen.
  • Biological intelligence is highly inefficient.
  • Communication between humans happens at a few bits per second. LLMs exchange a trillion bits per second.
  • GPT-4 is as good as a not-too-expert expert, but in practically everything.
  • No human will ever know as much as GPT-4.

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