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This smells a bit like a statement of faith. Digital neurons and neural networks are not the same as their biological counterparts, sure. But it is not an unrea
by amazingman 2mo ago
This smells a bit like a statement of faith. Digital neurons and neural networks are not the same as their biological counterparts, sure. But it is not an unreasonable proposition that their functions are isomorphic.
- bulbar 2mo agoIt is unreasonable, because a neuron is categorical different from a so called "neuron" used by AI. Same is true when you compare an actual brain and an AI model.
- toasty228 2mo ago> not an unreasonable Yet we have absolutely 0 clue nor proof besides "it feels about right", that's not how the scientific method works.
- rcxdude 2mo agoIt's not zero clue. Neurologists have got a lot of observations on how the brain works and there are multiple plausible proposed mechanisms for how the brain might do something like backpropagation, it's just that the details are really messy so there's not a single clear picture that has emerged. (Similarly, there is decent evidence that the brain uses higher-dimensional vector representations of concepts in a similar way to neural nets, at least in some parts of it, but again the details are messy and there's not a clear idea of how these representations emerge or how to decode them reliably)