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AI May Not Need Massive Training Data After All

Johns Hopkins researchers demonstrated that AI systems built with brain‑inspired architectures can exhibit human‑like neural activity without any pre‑training. By comparing untrained transformers, fully connected networks, and convolutional neural networks, they found that only the convolutional designs produced activity patterns matching human and primate brains. These untrained CNNs performed on par with conventional models that require millions of labeled images. The study suggests that architectural choices may be as critical as data volume for future AI development.