I think it seems that way, in your conscious thoughts, but actually there’s a lot more inter-brain-region communication going on simultaneously. I think that without this, you’d see far worse human outputs. And I think once we add something like higher-bandwidth-recursive-thought into language models, we’re going to see a capabilities jump.
It sounds a lot like what we do when we write (as opposed to talk). I recall Kurt Vonnegut once said something like (can’t find cite sry)
‘The reason an author can sound intelligent is because they have the advantage of time. My brain is so slow, people have thought me stupid. But as a writer, I can think at my own speed.’
Think of it this way: how would it feel to chat with someone whose perception of time is 10X slower? Or 100X or 1000X—or, imagine playing chess where your clock was running orders of mag faster than your opponent’s.
In a sense, that is what is happening when you think in words. It’s called the phonological loop.
I think it seems that way, in your conscious thoughts, but actually there’s a lot more inter-brain-region communication going on simultaneously. I think that without this, you’d see far worse human outputs. And I think once we add something like higher-bandwidth-recursive-thought into language models, we’re going to see a capabilities jump.
It sounds a lot like what we do when we write (as opposed to talk). I recall Kurt Vonnegut once said something like (can’t find cite sry)
‘The reason an author can sound intelligent is because they have the advantage of time. My brain is so slow, people have thought me stupid. But as a writer, I can think at my own speed.’
Think of it this way: how would it feel to chat with someone whose perception of time is 10X slower? Or 100X or 1000X—or, imagine playing chess where your clock was running orders of mag faster than your opponent’s.