Yeah neural nets are amazing compression algorithms since the best way to get the gist of something is to actually understand it, then algorithmically generatin

Yeah neural nets are amazing compression algorithms since the best way to get the gist of something is to actually understand it, then algorithmically generating the data. Like a calculator having a near infinite compression ratio because it can do math instead of keeping a table of all possible inputs and outputs. Same goes for human brains I suppose, we can only remember as much as we do because of the effective compression our understanding allows for.