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by psychiatrist24 1906 days ago
Can you explain what goes on in human brains?
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indigochill 1906 days ago
No, but human brains weren't engineered by humans, and so it is reasonable that we don't currently understand them even as reverse-engineering efforts continue.

AI, by contrast, is engineered by humans, so why is it humans can't explain it?

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causalmodels 1906 days ago
> human brains weren't engineered by humans

If this was true, the phenomena of feral children would not exist [1]. Human brains are socially engineered by an array of informal (family, friends, social context) and formal (schooling, governments) institutions.

[1] https://zenodo.org/record/901393

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psychiatrist24 1906 days ago
A deep learning network consists of hundreds of thousands of nodes, and it is becoming more (I didn't look up the actual number).

You can show the weights of the connections between the nodes, but that wouldn't really help anybody to understand it.

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