The remarkable properties of some recent computer algorithms for neural networks seemed to promise a fresh approach to understanding the computational properties of the brain. Unfortunately most of these neural nets are unrealistic in important respects.
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Crick, F. The recent excitement about neural networks. Nature 337, 129–132 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1038/337129a0
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