{"id":1036,"date":"2026-03-16T17:01:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T06:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.reefwing.com.au\/?p=1036"},"modified":"2026-03-16T17:01:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T06:01:16","slug":"primal-layers-is-the-ancient-brain-the-future-of-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reefwing.com.au\/?p=1036","title":{"rendered":"Primal Layers \u2014 Is the Ancient Brain the Future of AI?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reefwing.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/reefwing_Biological_neural_networks_utilize_inherent_sparsity_6412ae14-c33e-43b6-961a-42f0c5b59d64_0.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.reefwing.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/reefwing_Biological_neural_networks_utilize_inherent_sparsity_6412ae14-c33e-43b6-961a-42f0c5b59d64_0.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1037\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.reefwing.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/reefwing_Biological_neural_networks_utilize_inherent_sparsity_6412ae14-c33e-43b6-961a-42f0c5b59d64_0.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.reefwing.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/reefwing_Biological_neural_networks_utilize_inherent_sparsity_6412ae14-c33e-43b6-961a-42f0c5b59d64_0-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.reefwing.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/reefwing_Biological_neural_networks_utilize_inherent_sparsity_6412ae14-c33e-43b6-961a-42f0c5b59d64_0-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.reefwing.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/reefwing_Biological_neural_networks_utilize_inherent_sparsity_6412ae14-c33e-43b6-961a-42f0c5b59d64_0-768x768.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>If you are using AI at the moment, then it is probably based on a model of the human neocortex. All of the current Large Language Models (LLMs) are overwhelmingly inspired by this approach. These architectures are great at abstract reasoning, pattern recognition, and language generation which are all tasks that are analogous to higher-order cortical functions. But is this the path to AGI? We don\u2019t think it is, for reasons that will be explored <a href=\"https:\/\/ai.gopubby.com\/primal-layers-is-the-ancient-brain-the-future-of-ai-5419880b410e\">in this article<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are using AI at the moment, then it is probably based on a model of the human neocortex. All of the current Large Language Models (LLMs) are overwhelmingly inspired by this approach. These architectures are great at abstract reasoning, pattern recognition, and language generation which are all tasks that are analogous to higher-order [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[49,45],"tags":[9,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-1036","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-ai","7":"category-embedded","8":"tag-development","9":"tag-embedded-ai","10":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reefwing.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reefwing.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reefwing.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reefwing.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reefwing.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1036"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.reefwing.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1038,"href":"https:\/\/www.reefwing.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036\/revisions\/1038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reefwing.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reefwing.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reefwing.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}