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> Those who somehow confuse our “neural network architectures” with the actual biology in our skulls are really misguided.. To be fair, many lectures/books/art
by montebicyclelo 6y ago
> Those who somehow confuse our “neural network architectures” with the actual biology in our skulls are really misguided..
To be fair, many lectures/books/articles/blog posts on ANNs start off by presenting a biological neuron, and saying that ANNs approximate this.
E.g. https://youtu.be/uXt8qF2Zzfo?t=385 https://youtu.be/uXt8qF2Zzfo?t=385 (MIT 6.034 Artificial Intelligence, Fall 2010. 12a: Neural Nets)
- qubex 6y agoI do not exempt those who make such statements just because they have authority. If anything, they should know better. I started off along much the same path (I bought and read Neural Networks: A Comprehensive Foundation (1994) by Simon Haykin) when I was in high school, read it all and thought I knew everything there was to know on the topic, and then started to read about neurobiology and was stunned to discover I was living a lie. Then I read The Computational Beauty of Nature (1998) by Gary William Flake and decided I was going to dedicate myself to understanding the complexities we brush under the rugs. I think the Hacker News/Silicon Valley/Machine Learning/Developer crowd really need to look beyond the virtuosismo of their implementations. It’s a very introverted and self-referential mindset.