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TL;DR: The brain has far too many connections and nodes to really understand, in the way we want to understand a circuit. But we've been thinking about it wrong
by jvanderbot 6y ago
TL;DR: The brain has far too many connections and nodes to really understand, in the way we want to understand a circuit. But we've been thinking about it wrong. Those connections are the output of a somewhat basic learning algorithm which was replicated across all the "higher" intelligence functions including vision, speech, blah blah. Viewing the brain is like viewing the massively complicated output of a deep learning network, which was constructed quite simply by a prior topology and some gradient descent and large amounts of data.
- jvanderbot 6y agoFine fine, so trial and error over topologies and carefully nurtured "data infancy" are the key to artificial general intelligence. The 20 year claim ignroes a lot of details ... Tthe key stages of brain development that are sequential, only partially mutable, timed precisely with body development, and so on. Those million happy accidents could each be a component of the secret sauce that makes humans think like we do or not. Just look at how tiny the differences are between a schizophrenic person and someone with normal development trajectories. It's as simple as over-active pruning, perhaps. [1]. 1. https://www.newscientist.com/article/2075495-overactive-brain-pruning-in-teens-could-cause-schizophrenia/ https://www.newscientist.com/article/2075495-overactive-brai...
- selimthegrim 6y agoWhy on earth does this lead to an article about vanilla?
- sbierwagen 6y agoWorks correctly here.