[Der_Einzige]

Forget the biological connection, I'm sitting here waiting for someone to write a paper about how gradient descent and backprop are basically equivalent to the platonic notion of the dialectic within epistemology.

I wouldn't throw out biological plausibility, especially with the spiking neural network variant of them...

[datastoat]

While we're waiting for the paper on the Platonic link ... here's a book about how machine learning is all just a rerun of Oliver Wendell Holmes's theory of epistemology in the law, from the 1890s.

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-43582-0