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Intentional/incidental biomimicry of high level neural behaviors and structures by ML/AI researchers is hardly a new kid on the block. Sure, with neuron centere
by napier 4y ago
Intentional/incidental biomimicry of high level neural behaviors and structures by ML/AI researchers is hardly a new kid on the block. Sure, with neuron centered approach research is still at the level of discerning urban activity by looking at lighting patterns, but it has obvious practical value even if transformers and diffusion are only loose approximations of what's actually running in wetware.
- data_maan 4y agoWhat would the obvious practical value be? It's not so obvious to me, I would rather say "limited practical value"
- napier 4y agoGeneral purpose transformers and diffusion models are of limited practical value? Or biomimicry inspired research and design in general?
- data_maan 4y agoYou were talking about the practical value of comparing Transformers etc. to neural structures: "neuron centered approach research is still at the level of discerning urban activity by looking at lighting patterns, but it has obvious practical value". This type of research has limited practical value, for the reasons outlined in various comments I made here. Transformers etc. have a lot of practical values.