Gary Marcus

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 …

My beef with the “ANN are abstractions of the Brain” trope is that it is so vague that it is almost meaningless. It purposefully avoid all the things our models don’t include 1/2

The fact that #ANNs are inspired by the #brain is regularly used it to promote the idea that (1)we do have good understanding of brain function or (2)that we’re close to #AGI. Both of them false. I’m afraid this trope (used to scare or to sell something) is not value-neutral 2/2

By whom? Citations?

Obviously this is not necessarily @DeepMindAI fault, and sloppy journalism plays a big role. But these are examples how a valid analogy often backfires when is interpreted literally. Unfortunately, that's the way is often used when pitching companies and many VCs buy it 3/