Post #2548365
2026-04-19 20:28 UTC
@fishidwardrobe@mastodon.me.uk @linguacelta@toot.wales The author doesn’t engage at all with how neural networks implemented on computers work, and how they learn. One can reasonably have a variety of opinions about how useful that is as a model of the brain, but you can’t realistically ignore it altogether.
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@fishidwardrobe@mastodon.me.uk 2026-04-19 20:37
@kalong@sfba.social @linguacelta@toot.wales consensus these days appears to be that neural networks are *not* how humans think. despite the name, it appears that our neurons don't work like that. which is not to say that, if we one day get to computers that think, they won't use neural networks…