> Biology has evolved to use spikes (across many different species). Perhaps evolution didn't get the memo that non-spiking convolutional neural networks is th

> Biology has evolved to use spikes (across many different species). Perhaps evolution didn't get the memo that non-spiking convolutional neural networks is the only architecture worth building. I think this is representative of a lot of AI now. This chip doesn't obviously improve the state of the art on an arbitrary (but standard) benchmark, so LeCun dismisses it. That type of attitude strikes me as over fitting for an arbitrary benchmark (a local optimum) and missing the bigger picture. This chip (and line of research) could help identify how the brain works (which may very well also unlock strong AI).