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Re:Walking naturally after spinal cord injury using a brain–... by aeturnum on Wednesday May 24, 2023 @01:09PM (#36061114)
This is very exciting! One possibility that is, I think, covered up by all the hype around "AI works like our brains" (which I disagree with) is that: our brains are too complex for us to understand and ML may allow us to build more capable interfaces that we still don't understand - but which are easier to understand than the brain. It's an extremely promising new avenue for incremental progress.
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Re:Walking naturally after spinal cord injury using a brain–... by carlmr on Thursday May 25, 2023 @02:30AM (#36067654)
>"AI works like our brains" (which I disagree with)

While AI works like our brains is patently false it might just be analogous enough to not matter in the end if the details are the same to get similar emergent behavior.

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Re:Walking naturally after spinal cord injury using a brain–... by cookieperson on Thursday May 25, 2023 @06:44AM (#36069084)
Most applications like these don't require "emergent behavior" at all really... It's basically domain mapping from data. Super cool, but it's not like these models are all of a sudden forming personalities or something...
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Re:Walking naturally after spinal cord injury using a brain–... by tltimeline2 on Thursday May 25, 2023 @11:17AM (#36071835)
Insert "Two black boxes walk into a bar" joke here.
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Re:Walking naturally after spinal cord injury using a brain–... by ElfinTrousers on Friday May 26, 2023 @09:08AM (#36083572)
"AI works like our brains" is indeed generally not so, but CNNs do work like the visual cortex, somewhat--it's where they got the idea for them in the first place.
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