Can AI trained only on human content infer the shape of the human brain?
rickasaurus · x · 2026-10-16
The author poses a philosophical question: if you trained an AI on unlimited human-produced content — videos, songs, etc. — with experiments disallowed and only consumption, could it infer the shape of a human brain? He frames it as analogous to the debate over whether AI can function purely from text and replace people and culture.
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