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#106 – Matt Botvinick: Neuroscience, Psychology, and AI at DeepMind
Lex Fridman Podcast
How Does Recurrent Neural Networks Work?
In neuroscience, we call this working memory. It's actively holding something in mind. A form of meta learning spontaneously happens in recurrent neural networks. So imagine I give you a task where you have to press one button or another and there's some probability that I'm going to give you an M&M. And the recurrent neural network will do this just fine. There's no confusion about which button is best. It kind of transitions from exploring the two buttons to just pressing the one that it likes best in a very rational way. How is that happening? It's happening because the activity of the activity dynamics of the network have been shaped by the slow learning process that's occurred over many,
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