Can AI Infer the Human Brain From Pure Consumption of Human Content?
rickasaurus · x · 2026-10-16
Rick poses a thought experiment: if you trained an AI on unlimited human-produced content — videos of humans, songs, etc. — with no experiments allowed, only consumption, could it infer the shape of a human brain? How close could it get?
He argues this parallels the claim that AI can function purely from text and replace people and culture, questioning whether purely data-driven learning can recover underlying mechanisms.
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