Neuroscience citations in AI papers are mostly textbook common knowledge
ShahabBakht · x · 2026-10-27
A practitioner observes that neuroscience citations in AI papers are almost always textbook common knowledge, used mainly to hand-wave a connection to the brain for validation. Cases where an actual biological mechanism is turned into a novel architecture or learning rule are rare. A critical take on the "neuroscience-inspired AI" narrative.
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