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A Conversation Between Terry Sejnowski & Stephen Wolfram (February 14, 2023) [Part 2]

The Stephen Wolfram Podcast

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Is There a History of Machine Learning?

There's a huge, huge push for building special purpose machine learning. It takes it one step further and takes it down to building special purpose networks. These are based on the same biophysics that your neurons are based on. And eventually they will figure out how to do it online, but not yet. But there is a story here because if you now build the special purpose hardware nature built the hardware so that it could take an order and problem with n weights and actually build all the weights so they're physical, it becomes an order one problem, right? You don't have to simulate it. It just runs.

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