@Ylecun perpetuates false dichotomy here, between nature & nurture, without presenting data. Is there any evidence primates have fewer innate priors than mountain goats? Any proof that more innate priors actually entails less adaptivity? Better priors can yield *better* learning.https://twitter.com/ylecun/status/1180171721481113602 …
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Convolutions are a result of the networked computation, thresholds, frequencies and integrations. All living creatures use similar principles. It depends on the niche if it makes "sense", as that's where they are shaped. Change in environment makes the best prior meaningless, no?
the no free lunch theorem shows there is no best possible prior for all possible worlds. but we live in a particular world with a lot of systematic structure, & there can be best priors for specific worlds. mountain goat's priors are better than no priors would be for its world.
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Exactly. Interestingly enough there are "priors" that might hold true for diff 'species'. There's research on evolutionary principles focused on anole lizards on the Caribbean islands, that shows, that priors can evolve within a very short time period. That's the lizards, though.
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is there any evidence (aside from prejudice) that humans have fewer priors than lizards? surely our genomes specify a ton about our brains, and have more differentiate genes for doing so
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