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Next time someone asks me how does a modern artificial neural network really work - I'll just ask them "how do you know that my face does indeed look like mine?
by H8crilA 7y ago
Next time someone asks me how does a modern artificial neural network really work - I'll just ask them "how do you know that my face does indeed look like mine?". Or "how do you recognize people by their voices?". Or this creepy one: "can you consciously stop decoding the English I'm speaking now?". This Wikipedia page can serve as an extension of the argument.
- Simon_says 7y agoThose are all great to think about but seem rather lacking as an answer to the question.
- psychoslave 7y agoWell, I would say that to my mind we are not there. That is, despite the label of neural network, we do have a bottom up explanation of how it works (although it doesn't guaranties that this model is "what really happens out there"). On the other hand, despite the advances in neurosciences, as far as I know we don't have such a consensual bottom up model for human behaviors.
- Retric 7y agoWe have a bottom up model for very simple animals. But, even a fruit fly has 250,000 neurons that’s a lot of complexity. So, saying we understand some reflexive human behaviors from the ground up is actually a lot of progress. We are even applying that knowledge in many useful ways.
- naringas 7y ago> "can you consciously stop decoding the English I'm speaking now?" as a speaker of English as a second language this used to happen to me once I was sufficiently tired. I can almost do it in my native language if I am distracted "just right" (easier if it's being spoken with a different accent)