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Re:Self-taught AI shows similarities to how the brain works by ggm on Saturday August 13, 2022 @01:17AM (#32447145)
> To some neuroscientists, it seems as if the artificial networks are beginning to reveal some of the actual methods our brains use to learn.

I'm probably pinning a lot of hope on "some" here because I still tend to think at BEST we have plausible models to outcome. But, if biology teaches us anything it's that multiple pathways to an outcome are not just possible, they're normal.

I'd say when the next order model on top of this one goes to the same place a biological system does in a way which exposes theory of mind, I'll be less sceptical. Even then it could be analogous but distinct paths to the same outcome and so useful and informative but not necessarily telling us how the brain "does it"

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Re:Self-taught AI shows similarities to how the brain works by notahacker on Saturday August 13, 2022 @06:42AM (#32448541)
The other part of the "some" is that we're really talking about some portion of the visual system here. A model that can infer the geometry of a bus from a partial image of a bus having being shown lots of partial models of buses is a potentially very useful model (potentially one vastly superior at drawing buses to humans), but it's some way from a theory of mind and frankly doesn't sound that similar to how human brains conceptually model buses, where the basic shape is something operating at a very low level of our subconscious...
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