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Except a neural network is much like a simulation of neurons. So its not "like a computer," we're using computers to implement a model based roughly on the biol
by drzaiusapelord 11y ago
Except a neural network is much like a simulation of neurons. So its not "like a computer," we're using computers to implement a model based roughly on the biological brain. Its an intentional implementation to mimick the brain.
- warmfuzzykitten 11y agoThat's a misconception. A neural net is just a mathematical algorithm, not any kind of simulation of the human brain.
- c22 11y agoI don't see the conflict here. Simulations are mathematical algorithms. The mathematical algorithms of neural networks were devised as a model of what we observed neurons doing and turned out to be quite good at some of the things brains are quite good at.
- orbifold 11y agoThis is quite an overstatement, the electric potential of a neuron would be most accurately described by some pde, only approximately by the ode's that are usually used. Then it is another bunch of approximation down the line until you arrive at neural networks. It might be the case that certain types of neural networks accurately model the computational essence of what a brain does, but it does so in quite a different way.