Re:How Long Before Superintelligence? (1997)
by tim333 on Saturday February 06, 2016 @02:33AM
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>Researchers are having a hard time bubbling up new paradigms
One of the most promising approaches at the moment seems to be Deep Mind trying to reverse engineer the human brain. Demis Hassabis their main guy did a PhD in neuroscience with that in mind and they are currently trying to kind of replicate the hippocampus.
("Deep Learning is about essentially [mimicking the] cortex. But the hippocampus is another critical part of the brain and it’s built very differently, a much older structure. If you knock it out, you don’t have memories. So I was fascinated how this all works together. There’s consolidation [between the cortex and the hippocampus] at times like when you’re sleeping. Memories you’ve recorded during the day get replayed orders of magnitude faster back to the rest of the brain.")
One of the most promising approaches at the moment seems to be Deep Mind trying to reverse engineer the human brain. Demis Hassabis their main guy did a PhD in neuroscience with that in mind and they are currently trying to kind of replicate the hippocampus.
("Deep Learning is about essentially [mimicking the] cortex. But the hippocampus is another critical part of the brain and it’s built very differently, a much older structure. If you knock it out, you don’t have memories. So I was fascinated how this all works together. There’s consolidation [between the cortex and the hippocampus] at times like when you’re sleeping. Memories you’ve recorded during the day get replayed orders of magnitude faster back to the rest of the brain.")