Perhaps Gary Marcus said it best himself when critiquing Numenta, yet another brain inspired company [0]: [Brain inspired] models are arguably closer to how th

Perhaps Gary Marcus said it best himself when critiquing Numenta, yet another brain inspired company [0]: [Brain inspired] models are arguably closer to how the brain operates than artificial neural networks. "But they, too, are oversimplified," he says. "And so far I have not seen a knock-down argument that they yield better performance in any major challenge area." There are a few of these brain inspired machine learning companies, yet I cant think of a single one acquired by Google. Probabilistic modeling is great when you dont have much data and want to inject prior knowledge in a cohesive way. However Google's approach appears to be to create large and robust training sets to feed into somewhat conventional supervised learning frameworks. [0] http://www.technologyreview.com/news/536326/ibm-tests-mobile-computing-pioneers-controversial-brain-algorithms/ http://www.technologyreview.com/news/536326/ibm-tests-mobile...