News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:Deep learning is hitting a wall? by ravi-delia on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @11:49PM (#30623335)
"Neural Network", tragically, is a term that refers to a specific kind of model inspired by a sort of 70s understanding of human neurons. Deep learning refers to those models. The human brain is made of neurons, and by God do they network, but the term has been co-opted so it is not a neural network. A particular region or set of neurons that do one thing might be called a neural circuit, and the whole thing can be called the connectome (though that's sort of debatable).
Re:Deep learning is hitting a wall? by 9wzYQbTYsAIc on Thursday March 10, 2022 @08:47AM (#30626809)
Maybe it’s time for “academic justice” to reclaim the term.
Re:Deep learning is hitting a wall? by ravi-delia on Thursday March 10, 2022 @06:32PM (#30634088)
I'd love nothing more, believe me. But even if neural networks were taken to unambiguously refer to the neurons of animals, deep learning would still refer to the computational model, whatever its new name would be.
Re:Deep learning is hitting a wall? by 9wzYQbTYsAIc on Thursday March 10, 2022 @08:52PM (#30635206)
Technically, Artificial Neural Networks are what people mean when they say Neural Network, right? Biological Neural Network probably ought to be the default meaning of Neural Network, given the implicit homage to biological neurons.

I always wondered why people stopped referring to ANN and just went with neural network. Perhaps some anti-science bias or something like that.