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Preprinted! Been working on this for ~1 year w wonderful coauthors Nancy & Mark: > Understanding Artificial Neural Networks: Mysterianism about Known Mechanism is Mysticism doi.org/10.5281/zeno... Have you noticed many experts say they don't understand AI? What's going on? 🤯 Let us tell you... 1/

Here are some flagrant examples, although the appendix is full of them of them too — basically experts and journalists alike seem to repeat this mantra that we do not understand how contemporary AI works. See appendix at the end here for more: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 2/

This hangs with the other statements in fig 1: 1️⃣ ANNs (artificial neural networks) are inspired by human organism 2️⃣ ANNs are a black box we don't understand 3️⃣ We understand neither ANNs nor cognition therefore they are similar All 3 are misplaced! We unpack this... doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 3/

re [2] did you see my comment bsky.app/profile/rham...