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34 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 20 November 2007 07:58AM

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Comment author: Punoxysm 27 June 2014 01:30:57AM *  0 points [-]

On the other hand, architecture matters. The most successful neural network for a given task has connections designed for the structure of that task, so that it will learn much more quickly than a fully-connected or arbitrarily connected network.

The human brain appears to have a great deal of information and structure in its architecture right off the bat.

Comment author: [deleted] 27 June 2014 05:49:40AM 0 points [-]

The human brain appears to engage in hierarchical learning, which is what allows it to leverage huge amounts of "general case" abstract knowledge in attacking novel specific problems put before it.