Yes this is cool. But c’mon — these scientists should know better (correlation vs. causation, yada yada).

Humans have always believed that their current state of technology reflects how the brain works — clay pots and waterworks, electric circuits, cogs, etc. Just because there’s an “I” in AI and a “neural” in front of “network” doesn’t mean you’re not just mimicking something as opposed to replicating how it actually works…