+1, if someone gives me a gadget I’ve never seen before, and I try to figure out what it is and how to use it, that process feels like I’m building a generative model by mainly gluing together a bunch of pre-existing pieces, not like I’m doing gradient descent. And yeah, it’s occurred to me that this (the human brain approach) is a little bit like evolution. :)
+1, if someone gives me a gadget I’ve never seen before, and I try to figure out what it is and how to use it, that process feels like I’m building a generative model by mainly gluing together a bunch of pre-existing pieces, not like I’m doing gradient descent. And yeah, it’s occurred to me that this (the human brain approach) is a little bit like evolution. :)