Matt,
The EM fields are not noise. They are chaotic, complex and deeply entwined
in function. Indeed central to function.
I have theory. I have a hypothesis. I am doing the experiments. I have a
concept design for the chip. The central device device is on the floor next
to me and testing is in play, funded by the university.
I am now off to campus to discuss progress with my colleague at the
university.
Currently I am battling EM noise from the massive TV towers a few km from
here.

Kindly stop misrepresenting things.You have no clue what I am doing and are
not qualified to comment.

colin



On Wed, May 12, 2021 at 5:47 AM Matt Mahoney <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Maybe electromagnetic noise from neurons is significant. So what? If noise
> causes nearby neurons to fire, we can still model the effect using synaptic
> weights. Normal training will compensate for the effect.
>
> I don't know what Colin expects to find from his Xchip when he doesn't
> even know what it will look like. He is all about science but he has no
> theory, no hypothesis, and no planned experiment to test whatever it is.
>
> On Mon, May 10, 2021, 10:49 PM Mike Archbold <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On 5/10/21, Matt Mahoney <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > On Mon, May 10, 2021, 4:16 PM Mike Archbold <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> >> I can't speak for Colin but I do know that he isn't implementing
>> >> algorithms....
>> >>
>> >
>> > Exactly. He is proposing an "Xchip" that reproduces the electrical noise
>> > produced by real neurons. What he isn't proposing is any sort of
>> > experiment, or any chip design, or any rational argument why this noise
>> is
>> > important other than that the last 70 years of trying to solve AI have
>> > failed. He conveniently ignores all the progress we have made in AI with
>> > neural networks that model the spiking rate as a continuous signal
>> > representing a clamped, weighted sum of inputs and that learn by
>> adjusting
>> > anything that reduces the output error. It's like he is trying to
>> > understand social networks by studying the noise from the CPU circuit
>> > board.
>> >
>> > When Colin can answer my and WOM's questions I will take him seriously.
>> But
>> > I don't expect that to ever happen.
>> 
>> Well, your argument is a classic "begging the question" where you have
>> already presumed the strong electromagnetic field is just noise. Maybe
>> it is. Maybe not. Maybe partly.
>> 
>> Plainly a lot happens at the cell level with electric field action.
>> Ions are moving around, eg into cells, subject to electric fields.
>> What happens at a macro brain level or the middle stages with EMF? Why
>> is there a presumption that such activity is noise?
>> 
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