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> It still doesn't change the fact that they're just function approximators that are trained to minimize loss on a dataset.

That fact does not entail what theses models can or cannot do. For what we know our brain could be a process that minimize an unknown loss function.

But more importantly, what SOTA is now does not predict what it will be in the future. What we know is that there is rapid progress in that domain. Intelligence explosion could be real or not, but it's foolish to ignore its consequences because current AI models are not that clever yet.

>>luxcem+(OP)
> For what we know our brain could be a process that minimize an unknown loss function.

Every process minimizes a loss function.