Shorts
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Artificial Neural Networks and the human brain
I’ve been looking into Artifical Neural Networks (ANNs) the whole day today, since someone in my Java lab challenged me to make one, or something better. I’ve tried to find out about ANNs and exactly why we need them, and I’m not too impressed with what I’ve found.
Maybe my research scope hasn’t been wide enough or I’m not seeing the full picture, but ANNs seem majorly dumb. Either that, or understanding the human brain is easier than I thought. I mean, we use ANNs for just prediction and pattern recognition? if training a programmed version of our brain is as simple as feeding it petabytes of data, then the brain doesn’t seem so smart. Is that what our brain really is - A massively fast, self-learning prediction and pattern recognition engine, that has the senses as inputs and limbs as actuators/outputs? It’s learnt to do things and respond in a certain way because of conditioning and experience, which is all “training data” in ANN terminology. Other body functions are all automated, and we can’t intentionally slow down our heartbeat - unless we train ourselves (and by ourselves, I mean our brains). This doesn’t need to be trained.
How does the brain “just know” this? From everything I’ve read, that may be the only mystery left.
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