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Dr. Karl Friston: Why Health Care Practitioners Should Learn About Artificial Intelligence

Smarter Not Harder

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The Brain Carving Nature at Its Joints

The very existence of receptive fields, such as place selectivity, just is a reflection of the brain carving nature at its joints by tiling it into sweet chunks. And I think this notion of at the higher levels of deep generative models, things becoming symbolic and discretized, I think is absolutely right. So you can look at the fundamental simple neurobiology, human, visual, sort of your level, insight and fundamental observation, and say immediately just the existence of receptive field on that grid cells, tells you the brain represents a world in a particular way.

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