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> We know definitively that this is not how brains learn. So you have mechanistic, formal model of how the brain functions? That's news to me.
by naasking 3y ago
> We know definitively that this is not how brains learn.
So you have mechanistic, formal model of how the brain functions? That's news to me.
- Scarblac 3y agoYour brain was first trained by reading all of the Internet? Anyway, the question of whether computers can think is as interesting as the question whether submarines can swim.
- naasking 3y ago> Anyway, the question of whether computers can think is as interesting as the question whether submarines can swim. Given the amount of ink spilled on the question, gotta disagree with you there.
- iraqmtpizza 3y agoEndless ink has been spilled on the most banal and useless things. Deconstructing ice cream and physical beauty from a Marxist-feminist race-conscious postmodern perspective.
- naasking 3y agoExcept one is clearly a niche question, and the other has repeatedly captured the world's imagination and spilled orders of magnitude more ink.
- Etherlord87 3y agoIs it interesting to ponder if the Earth is flat?
- Scarblac 3y agoFor the record, that wasn't me, it's a famous quote from Edsger Dijkstra.
- SomeCallMeTim 3y agoThere's no way brains have the "right answers" fed into them as required by backpropagation.
- naasking 3y agoLook up predictive coding. Our senses are constantly feeding us corrections to our predictions.