Both ANNs and brains are (1) highly distributed and parallel (2) make small changes (3) efficient. Ideas like generalization hold for all systems with these three properties. In that sense, @tyrell_turing is obviously right. Maybe @GaryMarcus uses narrow def of abstraction.https://twitter.com/GaryMarcus/status/1200088188934451200 …
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Exactly. Saying “it’s an abstraction” isn’t helpful as it’s just redundant information *at best*. Proper Q is how useful - useful here being faithful to biology - is it, for making concrete progress towards synthetic intelligence.
just for the record, i was just following @tyrell_turing's terminology. agree that one key question is about usefulness, other is about epistemology: how can we really know at this point when we really don't yet understand the brain.
