I literally spent a whole day arguing with Blake Richards about this on Twitter a few months ago.
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"Well, if this is what everyone is using at NIPS, it *must* be how the brain works!"
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As someone said to me a few months ago: "Some people would argue backprop has taken off because of GPUs. If someone had made a GPU for Bayesian inference, then everybody would be flocking to that."
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Vikash Mansingkha said *exactly* that to me a few years ago and I found it... disturbing.
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Same story for a few thousand years, whatever is the most “sophisticated” technology people ardently believe is a good model of the brain
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And in the absence of other good models of the brain, that may be a decent hypothesis to pursue in most cases at any given time...
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