This is Dr. Maya Ackerman, a computer scientist known for her research in machine learning and music composition, and a core belief of hers is these systems aren't just similar to brains, they are brains.

And then people get mad at me.

There was this hilarious exchange I had where a brilliant human being got mad at me for calling them brains because it humanizes them.

Brains are not human Brains are in rats.

They're literally neural networks, right? Like, what- a brain is a neural network.

An artificial neural net has neurons that are artificial.

We know they're not identical to our neurons, but it's a neural network.

That's what making music is.