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I think you're missing the point there. Portia is able to, using just a handful of neurons (~600K), accomplish sophisticated vision tasks, complex planning, online learning and scheduling. Portia and insects in general are much more flexible to changes than our Neural nets. Changing objectives or a slight modification in the rules will often require retraining and a new design but insects can adapt to various lightin…
This, this right here is the EXACT situation that causes all the bioinformatics guys to be EXTREMELY NERVOUS using biological analogies like neurons for machine learning topics. They are NOT actually analogous except in the shallowest ways. First off, there's substantial evidence to suggest that in a biological systems, an activation profile of the neurological system is more analogous to what a Neural Network in mac…
Re: Artificial Intelligence Software Is Booming, But Why Now?
#141I don't have any disagreement with you--except with your fermi estimate--I've made some of those points before too. In retrospect (and I'd realized it before you posted) I shouldn't have emphasized neuron counts but watts. Ultimately, similar computations are occurring with hugely different energy profiles. That's what we should figure out how to do using software and the right hardware.