Research Hit: Right, so, artificial networks also need sleep!

I should say that it is artificial neural networks that seem to need sleep, or a rest. But isn’t one point of an artificial network that of it not needing sleep, or rest?

For those of you who don’t know, artificial neural networks are networks built by engineers in the computing space to mimic the brain’s cells and therefore hope to get better computing, or different, computing outcomes. Therefore, it comes as a real surprise that, apparently, rest improves their performance. It comes as a real surprise because these are not biological entities, there are numerous reasons we need rest as human beings, as biological beings. One is that there is a slow build-up of toxic material as we function. Another is that there is also constant genetic damage that needs to be repaired.