A mechanical neural network learns to respond to its environment
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#2I don't understand the advantage of this over just having a digital NN and then pushing the output to some electric motor?
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#3What is the point of the video??
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#4I don't understand the advantage of this over just having a digital NN and then pushing the output to some electric motor?
Indeed there is not such advantage.
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#5>Learns to Respond to Its Environment
So we're back at this kind of antropomorphization.
Re: A mechanical neural network learns to respond to its environment
#6>Learns to Respond to Its Environment So we're back at this kind of antropomorphization.
*Anthropos, and as if learning was unique to humans? What is learning anyway if not the adaptation of the brain to its inputs?
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#7I don't understand the advantage of this over just having a digital NN and then pushing the output to some electric motor?
I think you're missing the point. I think it's to demonstrate that fully mechanical systems can learn and react like a real brain plus muscles and sensors.
The possible implication is, if consciousness can arise in a digital neural net, it can also arise in a mechanical system, you just need enough of levers and gears connected in a certain way.
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#8I think to call a big machine a material is very wrong.
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#9I don't understand the advantage of this over just having a digital NN and then pushing the output to some electric motor?
It depends on how much koolaid you've drunk.
A NN implemented on a digital computer is a fixed way of varying the electrical field of the CPU (etc.) given (eg.,) an SSD state which produces a fixed way of varying (eg.,) a motor.
This is very (very) far away from adaptive motion at the "tissue" level.
The semi-mystical notion that a NN is a kind of "programming of reality" is false: just as a NN running on a CPU cannot perform nuclear fusion, it likewise, cannot produce material adaptation.
It is an open question whether any non-organic material is adaptive, and I'd bet against it.
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#10Given the title "Mechanical Neural Network", the presence of a conventional digital computer is really disappointing. I went in to this article hoping for steampunk AI.