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1 Feb 2026 Lex Fridman Podcast #490 – State of AI in 2026: LLMs, Coding, Scaling Laws, China, Agents, GPUs, AGI
“I think without the human mind, we probably wouldn’t have neural networks because it was an inspiration for them.”
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- 1 Feb 2026
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…Do you think there’s something very specific and singular to the fact that it’s neural networks that’s seen as a breakthrough? Like a genius move where you’re basically replicating, in a very crude way, the structure of the human brain, the human mind? I think without the human mind, we probably wouldn’t have neural networks because it was an inspiration for them. But on the other end, I think it’s just so different. I mean, it’s digital versus biological, so I think it will probably be more grouped as an algorithm. That’s massively parallelizable— —on this particular kind of compute?…
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