Thinking about how this may apply to AI, this research seems to be saying that the distribution of neurons is not a normal distribution, but more akin to the population of a country, where there are dense clusters of neurons amid a mostly sparse network, the same way populations heavily cluster in urban areas.
We don’t yet know the reason for that structure, but it appears across species and across different regions of the brain
It could be that a similarly modeled neuronal network would exhibit more pockets of specialized activity in response to certain inputs, and potentially even redundancies in specialization allowing it to process the inputs in slightly different ways to reach ensemble/consensus style outcomes. In some ways it sounds reminiscent of the mixture of experts approach
It’s certainly interesting!
To link back to a previous post from 7 months ago: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-08-mathematical-neurons-... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37234758
Microsoft wants me to install the Start app on my Android tablet to read this. I decline.
Dumb question but on mobile, how do I actually read the article? All I see is the abstract and a bunch of MSN spam.
No comment on how significant this is, but here's a link to the actual research: https://academic.oup.com/cercor/article/33/16/9439/7219677