Neural Networks Descend from Math Abstractions, Not Literal Brains
vishalmisra pushes back on the claim that AI will one day work like the brain, tracing how all modern neural networks—including Transformers—descend from the 1943 McCulloch-Pitts mathematical abstraction rather than biological neurons.
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