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#222 – Jay McClelland: Neural Networks and the Emergence of Cognition

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How Did You Discover Neural Networks in the Early Years?

The assembly of the mechanism that is capable of learning, that's like amazing. Ultimately, that is a very important part of the whole process of understanding this sort of emergence of mind from brain kind of thing. Yeah. So let me step back to neural networks for another brief minute. You wrote parallel distributed processing books that explored ideas on neural networks in the 1980s together with a few folks,. but the books you wrote with David Rommelhardt and Jeff Hinton. What are some memorable moments of discovery and beautiful ideas from those early days?

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