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GPUs vs Brains. Hardware and Architecture

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Epistemic status: I owe a lot of my thoughts to Jacob Cannell’s work on both brains and deep learning. My thinking here comes from my experience in large-scale ML as well as neuroscience background and specifically experience in analog hardware for deep learning The lesson of connectionism is the unification...

Epistemic status: I owe a lot of my thoughts to Jacob Cannell’s work on both brains and deep learning . My thinking here comes from my experience in large-scale ML as well as neuroscience background and specifically experience in analog hardware for deep learning The lesson of connectionism is the unification of brains and machines. Both brains and current DL systems implement the core of intelligence: (amortized) bayesian inference with on an extremely flexible learning substrate with massive optimization power and data. We are consistently surprised by the similarities between our DL systems

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