It's a bit precious I think to say that a human is a "bunch of optimization nodes". I can write code to create a CNN, and I can draw a graph of how it operates on a piece of paper. We can't even decode a few million rat neurons the same way.

A CNN is a pure mathematical function - if you want, you could write it down that way. Given a set of inputs, it will always produce the same output. We don't call a linear regression model an "intelligence", a CNN is no different.

Of course I agree that humans are built up of billions of tiny machines like this, but let's appreciate the vast difference in scale.

My exaggeration was intentional to point out that if you scale up NN based systems, we are not that different :) I do appreciate it, but let's not forget that we have finite nodes, so at one point a machine can surpass us with "just mathematical functions".

> A CNN is a pure mathematical function That's their basic property, but who are we to say that our cell based neural network is superior? Cells are just compositions of atoms and they are defined by quantum mechanics, which is... "just" math and information.

I also think that Go might be a great communication tool between AI and humans. If you look at the commentary from this angle if's fun to think about like this.