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As best I understand it- the exact purpose of sleeping has been a mystery, but that we know it strengthens neural connections, consolidates and organizes memories, prunes weak or unused synapses and integrates new information. Those sound a lot like adjusting weights in a model and performing backpropagation. Just a thought… not sure if it’s been posited before… To run with it though- What would dreaming be? Can AI’s generate tokens through back prop? What is our human equivalent of a loss function? Nightmares? submitted by /u/justheretoenjoy2

Originally posted by u/justheretoenjoy2 on r/ArtificialInteligence