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Oversimplifying for brevity (and there is definitely more nuance to this). This is basically the modeling approach: 1. Have a biological brain do a task, recor
by viableSprocket1 3y ago
Oversimplifying for brevity (and there is definitely more nuance to this). This is basically the modeling approach:
1. Have a biological brain do a task, record neuronal data + task performance
2. Copy some of those biological features and implement in an ANN
3. Tune the many free parameters in the ANN on task performance
4. Show that the bio-inspired ANN performs better than SOTA and/or shows "signatures" that are more brain-like.
The major criticisms of Yamins' (and similar) groups are either that correlation != causation, or correlation != understanding, or that it is tautological (bio-inspired ANNs will be more biological). I'm not sure how seriously this work is taken vs. true first principles theory.