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How the Human Brain Differs from a Large Neural Network

Human neurons are more complex than just input-weight-output. The brain has more neurons and uses continuous learning.

<p>1) Human neurons are not just input-weight-output; they are more complex: more intricate inputs, cumulative processes, "bleeding off" if not enough is accumulated, etc. There are already experiments with architectures that resemble human ones more closely.</p>
<p>2) The human brain has significantly more neurons - it's a matter of time and computational power.</p>
<p>3) The process of continuous learning and usage, unlike AI where we first train and then use.</p>
<p>4) The sleep process - a systemic process of restructuring connections.</p>
<p>5) External memory sources - similar architectures are already being tested.</p>
<p>6) The presence of external receptors inaccessible to computers (for example, smells).</p>
<p>7) The hallucination system - illogical restructuring of structure or signal failures leading to unexpected results - mood, drugs, etc.</p>
<p>8) The ability to manipulate the environment and receive new inputs - soon possible with the connection of robot manipulators and universal AI. By the way, what will we do when AI can independently extract the most valuable resource - energy?</p>
<p>9) Hundreds of thousands of years of evolution + the evolutionary mechanism as a whole.</p>
<p>10) The ability for rapid communication among themselves - say, a car that informs another car about what is happening around the corner.</p>
<p>What else?</p>
<p>P.S. Overall, the further we go, the more it evokes not admiration for how cool neural networks are, but fear of how, in fact, simply humans are structured. In this sense, I see no reason why artificial intelligence shouldn't surpass humans in the future.</p>