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Ask HN: Why doesn't AI use dynamical neurons instead of static activations?
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tonii141
7 hours ago
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nialse
6 hours ago
Dynamical neurons are not used because they add enormous computational cost and instability for limited practical gain.
tonii141
5 hours ago
What do you mean by "they add instability"?
rini17
6 hours ago
I guess it's impossible to simulate billions of dynamical neurons with current computer architecture, it is limited by memory bandwidth.
tonii141
6 hours ago
I agree, but maybe there is no need for billions of neurons to be simulated right away. Artificial neural networks were pretty small at the time.
rini17
4 hours ago
and they did not do much
tonii141
4 hours ago
Not true. AI has been around far longer than modern LLMs and has performed well in non-generative areas, often with orders of magnitude fewer parameters.