observation · 7 Mar 2024 · 1:05:04

Yann LeCun observes that most of the information accumulated by humans as babies is not present in text or descriptions, but in sensory data.

I mean, that's the 16,000 hours of wake time of a 4-year-old. And tend to do 15 bytes, going through vision. Just vision, right? There is a similar bandwidth of touch and a little less through audio. And then text doesn't... Language doesn't come in until like a year in life.

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