Timnit Gebru: deep learning folks ignore neuroscience and state guesses as facts
mjdramstead · x · 2026-09-27
Timnit Gebru amplified a critique that ML researchers pontificate about how the brain works while ignoring neuroscience as a field, adding that deep learning people were the worst offenders — slides used to end with 'and that's how the brain works' to mock Geoff Hinton.
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