There’s a video on YouTube where someone has managed to train a network of rat neurons to play doom, the way they did it seems reminiscent of how we train ML models

I am under the impression from the video that real neurons are a lot better at learning than simulated ones (and much less power demanding)

Could any ML problems, such as natural language generation be solved using neurons instead and would that be in any way practical?

Ethically at this point is this neuron array considered conscious in any way?

  • RedditWanderer@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    The concept of ML comes from neurons/the brain. If we could use the neurons we’d be way ahead, and that’s basically the hard part. If it will ever be feasible I don’t know.

    Brains have a lot more connections and meaningful ways of communicating compared to our silly signals and weights. This may be the barrier to AGI

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      7 months ago

      We can use neurons. I’m not sure we’re very good at it but people have used them for small tasks