[chillacy]

This article makes a lot of pretty bold claims (not only pointing out a flaw but suggesting that there is a better alternative) without posting their own AI's image recognition results based on spike timing.

> One thing is certain; a new AI model based on spike timing will pop out of nowhere and displace the existing paradigm.

Ok this is one thing which admittedly annoys me: is this certain, as in 99.999% probability? And with what time frame? Would the author be willing to enter a bet where I wager $1 and win a billion dollars (since it has positive expected value for a "certain" event)?

[pawelmurias]

> Would the author be willing to enter a bet where I wager $1 and win a billion dollars (since it has positive expected value for a "certain" event)?

Looking at other post the author is either a troll or mentally insane and plans to build fancy perpetual motion machines.

https://medium.com/@RebelScience/the-simple-reason-that-we-a...

[throwaway946513]

From the link - "Isaac Newton had a cause for acceleration (force) but none for inertia."

Funny, because physics explains that all objects of mass have inertia. Heavy objects traveling at speed have inertia. Faster speeds? More Inertia. Heavier objects? More inertia, and we can calculate inertia : I = mr2.

I doubt that this author has any credibility for anything related to physics.

[gizmo]

It’s also pretty bold to sell “full self driving”, claim that teslas increase in value because they’ll become robo-taxis and you’d be insane not to buy one, and claim that teslas can drive coast to coast autonomously, when the reality is that FSD isn’t even at the level of that faked “paint it black” sf drive video yet.

[jacinabox]

Jeff Hawkins work on predictive memory models the cerebral cortex and works based on comparing input signals that are close in time, which absolutely could be described as "spike timing."

[tromp]

Indeed; what has spike timing AI got to show for it?

I certainly cannot imagine spike timing capable of reproducing some of deep learning's triumphs like Alpha Zero...