The big bottleneck for AI: a shortage of powerful chips

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That's not what an artificial neural network is.

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Kekw.

What is an artificial neural network? I swear they said “we’re trying to copy the brain to see if it suddenly is conscious”.

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Artificial neural networks are a way to facilitate machine learning by mimicking the general function of neurons, which signal outgoing connections based on the sum of incoming signals reaching an activation threshold. This mechanism has proven to be very well suited for fitting models to complex problems. They are not an attempt to copy the structure of the brain or produce consciousness.

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There may be some confusion here between different approaches. There is a group that is working on a computer simulation of a brain. Whether they expect the simulation itself to become conscious, I don't know.