Comment by nkoren
5 years ago
This seems rather optimistic to me. There are days when I count myself lucky to be able to debug my own code. And it's maybe about seven orders of magnitude less complex. And has comments. And unit tests.
I'd be willing to bet that once we've achieved the ability to scan and simulate brains at high fidelity, we'll still be far, far, far away from understanding how their spaghetti code creates emergent behaviour. We'll have created a hyper-detailed index of our incomprehension. Even augmented by AI debuggers, comprehension will take a long long time.
Of course IAMNAMSWABRIAJ (I am not a mad scientist with a brain in a jar), so YMMV.
> Of course IAMNAMSWABRIAJ (I am not a mad scientist with a brain in a jar), so YMMV.
How can you be so sure of that?
Because he stated he's not a scientist with a jarred brain in his possession (to his knowledge/current memory state), not that he has his own brain in a jar, which, while possible, is most unlikely.
Yes, I'm fun at parties.
I'm not sure if it was intentional or not, but there is a clever meta joke hidden in your comment that made me actually laugh. Kudos.
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Yep, I'm definitely making no positive statements as to the absolute location of my brain, or its state of empicklement.
This depends on availability of debug/test/research environment for brain images.
There are 20M sw developers on this planet. If 100k of them had daily available dev environment for brain images, then things would progress extremely fast.
Well, training a neural network is not significantly different from how you train a brain. You don’t need to know the inputs as long as it produces the right outputs.