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EP 192 David Krakauer on Science, Complexity and AI

The Jim Rutt Show

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The History of Neural Nets

The history of neural nets, which lead to the world you're describing, were actually about deduction. And trying to understand how a brain might reason propositionally. Now they're using ridiculous stuff like ReLU, right? Because it's easily calculatable in a GPU that has got nothing to do with biological realism. Yet, yet somehow when you stack them up, they can do magical stuff.

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