Brains, real and metaphorical

A few highlights from Lee Gomes’slong, lucidinterview with Facebook’s artificial-intelligence chief Yann LeCun in IEEE Spectrum:

Gomes: We read about Deep Learning in the news a lot these days. What’s your least favorite definition of the term that you see in these stories?

LeCun:My least favorite description is, “It works just like the brain.” I don’t like people saying this because, while Deep Learning gets an inspiration from biology, it’s very, very far from what the brain actually does. An...