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"Neural Network", tragically, is a term that refers to a specific kind of model inspired by a sort of 70s understanding of human neurons. Deep learning refers t
by ravi-delia 5y ago
"Neural Network", tragically, is a term that refers to a specific kind of model inspired by a sort of 70s understanding of human neurons. Deep learning refers to those models. The human brain is made of neurons, and by God do they network, but the term has been co-opted so it is not a neural network. A particular region or set of neurons that do one thing might be called a neural circuit, and the whole thing can be called the connectome (though that's sort of debatable).
- 9wzYQbTYsAIc 5y agoMaybe it’s time for “academic justice” to reclaim the term.
- ravi-delia 5y agoI'd love nothing more, believe me. But even if neural networks were taken to unambiguously refer to the neurons of animals, deep learning would still refer to the computational model, whatever its new name would be.
- 9wzYQbTYsAIc 5y agoTechnically, Artificial Neural Networks are what people mean when they say Neural Network, right? Biological Neural Network probably ought to be the default meaning of Neural Network, given the implicit homage to biological neurons. I always wondered why people stopped referring to ANN and just went with neural network. Perhaps some anti-science bias or something like that.