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  • its not, though. Its best described as inspired by a big pachinko machine, with weighted pegs.It is almost in no way inspired by. Thats just propaganda being put out to make AI more palatable, and personable.

    Get your facts straight.
    The multi layer perceptron was first proposed in 1943 and was indeed inspired by biological networks: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02478259

    You can be sure this wasn’t to make it “more palatable”, wtf.

    Regarding the rest of your reply:

    You seem to be expecting a fully functioning digital brain as replica of the human brain. That’s not what current ANNs in modern AI methods do.

    Although they are in their core inspired by nature (which is why I originally said that advancements in brain research can aid the development of more advanced AI models), they work structurally different. And ANNs for example are just simplified mathematical models of biological neural nets. I’ve described basic properties before. Further characteristics, like neurogenesis, transmission speeds influenced by myelinated or unmyelinated axons, different types and subnets of neurons, like inhibitors, etc., are not included.

    There is quite a large difference between simplfied models which are “inspired by” nature and exact digital replicas. It seems you are not accepting this.



  • I said “inspired by” and not “exact digital replicas”.

    In classical MLP networks a neuron is modeled as an activation function depending on its inputs. Connections between those are “learned”, basically weights which determine the influence of one neuron’s output on the next neuron’s input. This is indeed Inspired by biological neural networks.

    Interestingly, in some computer vision deep learning architectures, we have found structures after the training procedure which are even similar to how human vision works.

    There are a bunch of different artificial neural network types, most – if not all – inspired by biology. I wouldn’t be so bold to reduce them in that absurd manner you did.






  • very safe when handled correctly

    Too many people are not educated about that.

    The problem lies in the manufacturing of these needed chemicals. When these chemicals get into the environment, because of improper safety managemen

    Which is one of the reasons for that law, see:

    Dubbed “Amara’s Law” after 20-year-old cancer victim Amara Strande, who in 2023 succumbed to a rare type of liver cancer linked to PFAS after growing up near a Minnesota-based 3M plant that dumped them into the local water supply, the new regulation bans the chemicals and any items made with them from being sold within the state.




  • If you are in a debate and you want to nudge someone towards your opinion, or at least away from theirs, without triggering the typical emotional defence behaviour which ruins rational discussions, calmly ask objective questions which point towards problems in the arguments of your partner.

    From my experience, I found this certainly helps to keep discussions civil and make people think rather than just judge emotionally, even though this is not a one-fits-all tool.

    (A) Such questions can be used to inquire about the reasons for a statement or opinion, which can provide you with a broader argumentative “attack surface” and might weaken your discussion partner when they discover that their point of view is not as sound and good as they thought it to be.

    This basically boils down to principles of epistemology. “How do you know?”

    (B) Another use is to include facts or opinions in such questions which counter the argument of your partner and let them re-evaluate it.

    Two simple examples:

    • “Why do you think that wolves are dangerous for humans?” (A)
    • “How does this fit with research which shows that wolves avoid humans and don’t see them as prey?” (B)

    That way you don’t necessarily present yourself as an opponent, since your own opinion is not directly verbalized. Instead you hop into a more neutral role, where you ask genuine questions and show interest in the other person’s point of view. Combatative counter arguments are rephrased and hidden that way without the other person realizing it.