M. Grégoire
"To understand even the basics of how the brain maintains the human intellect, we might need to know not just the current state of all 86 billion neurons and their 100 trillion interconnections, not just the varying strengths with which they are connected, and not just the states of more than 1,000 proteins that exist at each connection point, but how the moment-to-moment activity of the brain contributes."
The Empty Brain - aeon
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-empty-brain
M. Grégoire
To give my own view, while Dr. Epstein is certainly right that "We are organisms, not computers", processing information is at least part of what the brain does, so cognitive research based on computer metaphors will probably produce some meaningful results.
The article is at least a datapoint indicating that general #AI is still a few decades away.
M. Grégoire
For a datapoint suggesting that general #AI may appear any minute now, see this series from #SlateStarCodex :
https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/02/18/do-neural-nets-dream-of-electric-hobbits/
https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/02/19/gpt-2-as-step-toward-general-intelligence/
https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/02/28/meaningful/
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