""What’s wild is when people started building ANNs in the 1940s they copied the binary {0,1} template. But essentially all modern AI has abandoned binary neurons because they just don’t learn as well. AI engineers gave up on the (presumed) biology and now modern artificial neurons use (presumably non-biological) smooth, non-linear activation functions. But our work suggests that spikes were never binary to begin with (which is funny because every neurophysiologist is like: yeah, we know!)"