Rene Wooller
@renetron@aus.social
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@cohentheblue@ohai.social @thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io re parameters and rules and exceptions - they are all different things. a real neuron has connections with other neurons that pass electrical signals. When the combined incoming signals crosses a threshold, that neuron itself is activated and starts firing signals out to other neurons. Some connections are easier for the signal to propagate (across the synapse), others are harder. In an artificial neuron, the ease with which a connection passes a signal is modeled in a ‘parameter’ . A rule would be learnt by a whole complex graph of neurons - ie given this input, produce this output. I’m not sure ‘exception’ belongs in any of that description …
Anyway my original comment is just an attempt to get some useful analogy way to think about the new technology. Analogies never really work, and open to other ones. something that has the properties of not being generalisable or adaptive but able to retain and scan huge amounts of data or deal with a very wide context and pick out patterns easily