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I don't know, the mere fact that someone with brain damage that severe could even be conscious and interact with the world is pretty damned impressive to me. An AI with that kind of systemic damage would present a Blue Screen. The difference between vegetative and able to take an IQ test is far, far higher than the difference between an IQ of 70 and one of 130.

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Dropout is regularization technique in deep learning that works little like like that. Randomly selected neurons are ignored during training, typically the probability is 0.5. This means that half of the neurons don't work.

In other words, the network is trained with 50% 'brain damage' to make it learn better and become more robust.

Dropout is not deletion. The neurons turned off will be lit in the next run, and all would make into the model (brain).

There are networks that can be “damaged” (in the sense of having neurons ripped out) and still function reasonably well.

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