Randomly initialized weights do work for neural nets. I'm not much into AI tho. Think of it like this: You can make a rather arbitrary nonsense claim and still

Randomly initialized weights do work for neural nets. I'm not much into AI tho. Think of it like this: You can make a rather arbitrary nonsense claim and still hope for a response that corrects it, or has something interesting to say at least. Alas, I am not the response one would hope for the most-- not offering a map to the kingdom either, while a connectome alone isn't worth much anyway.