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I was objecting to the statement: "The brain is most certainly not a neural network" - as if to say that the types of artificial neural networks employed in mac
by skohan 8y ago
I was objecting to the statement: "The brain is most certainly not a neural network" - as if to say that the types of artificial neural networks employed in machine learning are somehow the central definition of what a neural network is. I would be happy with "the brain is not an ANN", or "The brain is very different from the types of neural networks used in Machine Learning", but to say the brain is anything other than a neural network is just plain wrong.
- tptacek 8y agoThat's not what they said. They said, "The brain is most certainly not a neural network, as the term is understood in machine learning.".
- skohan 8y agoI understand what they said. That statement reads: "Machine learning has a concept of a neural network, and the brain is not that". A correct statement would be: "The field of machine learning makes use of a computing system called an artificial neural network, which is loosely based on the structure and function of a biological neural network." The statement in question would be like saying: "Italians most certainly do not make real coffee, as the term is understood at Starbucks." There's a technically correct reading of that sentence, but the implication is offensive to the subject matter.