Yeah, that's fair. The goals of machine learning and neuroscience seem fairly different. Nobody in ML will complain if your neural network has great prediction

Yeah, that's fair. The goals of machine learning and neuroscience seem fairly different. Nobody in ML will complain if your neural network has great prediction but isn't supported biologically. OTOH, neuroscientists might take a model that isn't the best in terms of prediction, if it seems to better represents how the brain operates. There seems to be some interesting interplay, though. For example deepmind recently sponsored this ANN conference where most the speakers were neuroscientists. https://sites.google.com/site/ncpw15/ https://sites.google.com/site/ncpw15/