<div dir="ltr">Perceptron-style "neurons" were a simplified caricature of how neurologists thought neurons /might/ work back in the 70s, even when they were first implemented.<div><br></div><div>Time and neurological research hasn't been kind to the comparison.</div><div><br></div><div>At this point, the only similarity between the basic elements of network-based machine learning algorithms and mammalian brain cells is the name. ML "neurons" are basically pure mathematical abstractions, completely unmoored from anything biological cells actually do.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Apr 29, 2022 at 12:01 PM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a href="https://neurosciencenews.com/dendrite-learning-20492/" target="_blank">https://neurosciencenews.com/dendrite-learning-20492/</a><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)">'This changes everything' is trite, but maybe true here.   Notice that AIs are programmed according to the old theory of strengthened synapses.  Maybe that will change.  bill w</div></div>
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