How Might a Human Machine Think? In a Kaggle competition on distracted driving, the dataset consisted of images of drivers who either were or weren’t engaging in distracting activities. Rachel Thomas warns against “…overfitting to particularities of those specific people, and not just learning the states (texting, eating, etc). (emphasis added)”…

Current AI really isn’t mimicking the brain, other than in name. “Neural networks” are indeed networks, but they really have very little to do with neurons. The general idea of an ‘activation function’ comes from neurons, but in AI it just means “if the aggregate addition of all these little…