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I had the same feeling, I have always seen it like: 1. Neurons encode a concept and activate when it shows up. 2. No, it's way more complicated and mysterious
by bjackman 3y ago
I had the same feeling, I have always seen it like:
1. Neurons encode a concept and activate when it shows up.
2. No, it's way more complicated and mysterious than that.
And now this seems to add:
3. Actually, it's only more complicated than that in a fairly straightforward mathematical sense. It's not that mysterious at all.
I suspect this means that either I'm not picking up on subtleties in the article, or Scott is representing it in a way that slightly oversimplified the situation!
On the other hand, the last quote in the article from the researchers does seem to be hitting the "it's not that mysterious" note. A simple matter of very hard engineering. So, I dunno. Cool!