Comment by ants_everywhere
7 days ago
Neural networks are explicitly modeled on brains.
I don't know where this idea that "the things haves similar names but they're unrelated" trope is coming from. But it's not from people who know what they're talking about.
Like I said, go back and read the research. Look at where it was done. Look at the title of Marvin Minksy's thesis. Look at the research on connectionism from the 40s.
I would wager that every major paper about neuroscience from 1899 to 2020 or so has been thoroughly mined by the AI community for ideas.
You keep saying people who disagree with you don’t know what they’re talking about. I build neural networks for a living. I’m not creating brains.
Just because a plane is named a F/A-18 Hornet doesn’t mean it shares flight mechanisms with an insect.
Artificial neural nets are very different from brains but in practice are very different, for the reasons I mentioned above, but also for the reason that no one is trying to build a brain, they are trying to predict clicks or recommend videos etc.
There is software which does attempt to model brains explicitly. So far we haven’t simulated anything more complex than a fly.