I’m not convinced that these similarities are great enough to merit such anchoring. Just because NNs have more in common with brains than with SVMs, does not imply that we will understand NNs in roughly the same ways that we understand biological brains. We could understand them in a different set of ways than we understand biological brains, and differently than we understand SVMs.
Rather than arguing over reference class, it seems like it would make more sense to note the specific ways in which NNs are similar to brains, and what hints those specific similarities provide.
I’m not convinced that these similarities are great enough to merit such anchoring. Just because NNs have more in common with brains than with SVMs, does not imply that we will understand NNs in roughly the same ways that we understand biological brains. We could understand them in a different set of ways than we understand biological brains, and differently than we understand SVMs.
Rather than arguing over reference class, it seems like it would make more sense to note the specific ways in which NNs are similar to brains, and what hints those specific similarities provide.