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0 pointspmyjavec9y ago0 comments

What's your point actually? Honest question.

You're acting like the brain is some kind of simple algorithm, more goes into a painting or a composition than just a bit of simple logic. A composer is not sitting there at 2am on her Piano going "Hm, I like round numbers, so I might make this note a F because it's the fourth note in the C major scale".

I might be wrong but from my understanding, we don't even really understand how neural nets are able to make certain decisions or generate certain pictures yet, correct?

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dpark9y ago

> You're acting like the brain is some kind of binary computer

It's not binary but it is a computer. The alternative is to believe in magic.

> we don't even really understand how a computer is able to make certain decisions or generate certain pictures yet, correct?

I don't think that's correct, no. We understand how the process works. We may not understand the weights a specific neural net ends up with, but that's an issue with just having so much data to deal with. Similarly we don't "understand" how a web page ends up with a specific PageRank. We understand the process, but we can't manually reproduce the result because it's just too much data.

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