[shahbaby]

For ~70 years, the brightest minds on earth have been trying and failing to solve AI. Many of them refusing to consider that something useful can be learned from the human brain; the gold standard of what it means to be intelligent.

Yet today, cutting edge deep learning technology is based on a crude and increasingly inaccurate model of neurons.

If we're now making discoveries that are revealing artificial processes that are similar to our own, it's a sign we're headed in the right direction.

[nix23]

>the only indisputable example of intelligence in the known universe

I dispute that any time any day with you, just because we define what intelligence is, do's not mean that we are intelligent.

[shahbaby]

Unless we've specifically defined intelligence in a way that reflects ourselves.

The useful things that we want to get out of an AI system, i.e generalized learning of abstract concepts, are most clearly demonstrated by the human brain.

Since we now seem to prefer down votes over discussion, I'll just leave this with my own speculation that the reason for this strange avoidance of the brain is that it's a dead end for both academia and industry.

It's much easier and more profitable to expand on already existing machine learning technologies than to try and find some revolutionary breakthrough in neuroscience.

[nix23]

Well we accepted that animals are intelligent too (no really long ago but still), even that something like a swarm-intelligence exists, but yeah i know what you mean.

EDIT: Wow you changed your comment that much that my comment makes nearly no sense anymore.