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kanzure on Jan 18, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Unreasonable Reputation of Neural Networks

> Building an NN and hoping its brain-like structure will start to think is like building a flapping machine and hoping its bird-like structure will start to fly.

But... you're replying in a comment thread that has explicitly stated that "NNs" don't at all qualify as "brain-like".

argonaut on Jan 20, 2016 [–]

Which was my response to someone implying we should make them more brain-like. So the comment was quite relevant.

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