LeCun: distributed representations beat grandmother cells, known since the 1980s
burny_tech · x · 2026-10-19
Responding to Pedro Domingos, Yann LeCun argues that distributed representations are superior to grandmother cells—a point settled since the early 1980s. He adds a nuance: sparse distributed representations still hold some advantages over dense ones.
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