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New comment by hotiwuer324234 in "Cubic millimetre of brain mapped at nanoscale resolution"

hotiwuer324234 — Sat, 11 May 2024 22:18:18 +0000

> "So maybe it’s actually got a much better learning algorithm than us.”

And yet somehow it's also infinitely less useful than a normal person is.

hotiwuer324234 — Sat, 11 May 2024 22:13:58 +0000

> but we aren’t going to understand intelligence this way

The same argument holds for "AI" too. We don't understand a damn thing about neural networks.

There's more - we don't care to understand them as long as it's irrelevant to exploiting them.

hotiwuer324234 — Sat, 11 May 2024 22:11:47 +0000

On the second point, the failure of Openworm to model the very well-mapped-out C. elegans (~0.3k neurons) says a lot.