Anthropic claims Claude is on a path to super intelligence

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John F Sowa

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Sep 29, 2026, 11:35:31 PMSep 29
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The guys from Anthropic have ZERO understanding of the complexity and power of the human brain-body system.   For a better perspective, I recommend a recent article from MIT Technology Review.  It shows that our conscious information is a tiny fraction of the immense amount that the brain is processing every second.   The languages we speak express a tiny fraction of what is conscious.  But the part outside of consciousness is immensely larger .  

I copied a few paragraphs that emphasize the immense amount of non-linguistic information that LLMs (Large Language Models) ignore.   
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Inside interoception:  The hidden sense of how you feel inside

Our senses take in information at a staggering rate—roughly 11 million bits flood in every second from our skin, eyes, ears, and more. That’s nearly three paperback novels’ worth of data every second. Only a sliver reaches our conscious awareness.  Researchers estimate that our conscious minds can process roughly 10 to 60 bits of information per second, about the rate at which you’re reading this sentence. That’s a ratio of about one conscious bit to hundreds of thousands of unconscious bits. . . .

But until recently, scientific understanding of this interoceptive system looked like a high-level schematic that left out vital details—how information travels from the outside environment in, how it moves from your body to your brain, and how it is integrated and interpreted within your brain. Researchers are now racing to explore what the neuroscientist Catherine Tallon-Baudry calls this “new continent of awareness.” . . . .

The signals we once dismissed as vague feelings—when your gut tightens before you know why, when your body says yes or no before your mind catches up—those are real. How we interpret them and whether we act on them is another frontier.

It’s clear that gut feelings play a role in scientific research, especially when the path forward looks foggy. Patapoutian’s informed intuition kept him and his colleagues going long enough to find PIEZO, a reminder that major discoveries often start with a hunch that is later tested against evidence. Chen puts it well: Maybe we can be grounded in both feeling and fact.


PS:  AI systems that only process language deal with a tiny fraction of human conscious awareness, which is a tiny fraction of what the human body-brain system processes every instant.  Any claim that LLMs wiill magically surpass the human system has has no justification whatever.  

Perhaps AI systems will someday do much more, but new technology that goes far beyond LLMs wouid be necessary.    Billions of Nvidia chips are a waste of land, water, electricity, and money.

Simon Polovina

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Sep 30, 2026, 9:37:23 AMSep 30
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