How Deep Learning Mimics the Brain

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is slowly developing at the moment because, as John Light infers (2017), it is both a technology AND a philosophy. I mean, will we really ever replicate human intelligence and sentience in machines?

Although we have gone from hard coding rules into a machine to the machine sensing, comprehending, acting and learning on its own, we have only simulated the logical operations of the mind so we still have our work cut out for us when it comes to machine consciousness because obviously, consciousness is not in our power to create.

Machine Learning (ML) is a branch of AI that enables machines to make predictions from any given inputs, acting without being explicitly programmed and Deep Learning (DL) is a method of ML which uses artificial neural networks for classification tasks and is inspired by biological neural networks which Nagify Richard (2018) explains.

Just as the neuron receives signals from the dendrites and sends them down the axon as inputs to other neurons, repeating the process, Nagify Richard (2018) relates how artificial neurons can do the same to classify data which results in Computer Vision which allows a computer to see and visualize like a human would (Playment, 2018) and also speech recognition etc.

Machines will only ever mimic math logic because it is quantifiable according to the laws of this physical dimension whereas consciousness and emotions are reserved for sentient life forms and cannot be measured or weighed in this physical dimension.

References:

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