Tomaso Poggio: Brains, Minds, and Machines
Lex Fridman Podcast
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Is the Face the Part of the Brain That Is Concentrated on Face Recognition?
Marge livingstone at harvard has done some amazing experiments in which she raised baby monkeys depriving them of faces during the first weeks of life. They found no face preference. So my guess is that what evolution does in this case is there is a plastic anarea which is plastic, which is kind of predetermined be imprinted very easily. But the command from the gin is not a detailed circuetry for a face template. Could be, but this will require probably a lot of bits.
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