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I believe his point isn't that no thinking was involved in creating neural nets, but that our own ability to think is the result of a long line of random adjust
by ksdale 11y ago
I believe his point isn't that no thinking was involved in creating neural nets, but that our own ability to think is the result of a long line of random adjustments to optimize the human body for survival, the implication being that giving an entity a goal and letting it attempt a wide range of things randomly to achieve that goal isn't that silly of a method.
- YeGoblynQueenne 11y agoYes, I get that, but I think it is silly if you don't have a few billions of years and a few billions of species with a few trillions of individuals to optimise over (like evolution had). If you have fewer resources you have got to get smart and in fact, that's exactly how people work with algorithms: they try to avoid using brute force. Well ish. Machine learning algorithms are cutting it very close to brute force most of the time.