[aerlinger]

The short answer is no, the architectures don't transfer. At least not today. Biological neurons are much more complex, and therefore behave quite differently from neurons in neural networks.

To put things in perspective, we've fully mapped the connectome (map of neuron connections) of the simplest animal, C. Elegans, which has only about 300 neurons, yet we still can't simulate this organism's behavior computationally.

[evincarofautumn]

Last I knew, OpenWorm was making good progress on the nervous system simulations, though. IIRC they’ve demonstrated swimming, retracting when bumping into walls, and food-seeking.

[sebastianmarkow]

Feed-forward CNNs pretty much describe V1 to V5 in primates. There are multiple papers on these architectures in the last decade.