Neural networks, AI, and the goals of modeling

Behavioral and Brain Sciences 46:e411 (2023)
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Abstract

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have found many useful applications in recent years. Of particular interest have been those instances where their successes imitate human cognition and many consider artificial intelligences to offer a lens for understanding human intelligence. Here, we criticize the underlying conflation between the predictive and explanatory power of DNNs by examining the goals of modeling.

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Walter Veit
University of Reading
Heather Browning
University of Southampton

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