A Neural Network, observing itself, instead of some other input, could be intriguing, if not perhaps even conscious? The input layer is smaller than all those hidden layers and synapses between them. But the input layer may hover across its own interior, just as it normally hovers over many cat pictures. Has anyone already tried it?
Given that neural network quines ( https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.05859 ) are a thing, it’s plausible that a sufficiently complex neural network could indeed observe itself even without explicitly using itself as an input, assuming you mean ‘performing calculations on its own weights’ by observing itself.
Although this would likely require training to do so.
(This is mainly an excuse to tell others that neural network quines exist.)
A Neural Network, observing itself, instead of some other input, could be intriguing, if not perhaps even conscious? The input layer is smaller than all those hidden layers and synapses between them. But the input layer may hover across its own interior, just as it normally hovers over many cat pictures. Has anyone already tried it?
Given that neural network quines ( https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.05859 ) are a thing, it’s plausible that a sufficiently complex neural network could indeed observe itself even without explicitly using itself as an input, assuming you mean ‘performing calculations on its own weights’ by observing itself.
Although this would likely require training to do so.
(This is mainly an excuse to tell others that neural network quines exist.)
Upvoted for NN quines (didn’t know about this, seems cool)
What would be the goal?