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0 pointsants_everywhere7mo ago0 comments

Neural networks are explicitly modeled on brains.

I don't know where this idea that "the things haves similar names but they're unrelated" trope is coming from. But it's not from people who know what they're talking about.

Like I said, go back and read the research. Look at where it was done. Look at the title of Marvin Minksy's thesis. Look at the research on connectionism from the 40s.

I would wager that every major paper about neuroscience from 1899 to 2020 or so has been thoroughly mined by the AI community for ideas.

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janalsncm7mo ago

You keep saying people who disagree with you don’t know what they’re talking about. I build neural networks for a living. I’m not creating brains.

Just because a plane is named a F/A-18 Hornet doesn’t mean it shares flight mechanisms with an insect.

Artificial neural nets are very different from brains but in practice are very different, for the reasons I mentioned above, but also for the reason that no one is trying to build a brain, they are trying to predict clicks or recommend videos etc.

There is software which does attempt to model brains explicitly. So far we haven’t simulated anything more complex than a fly.

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