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Terry Sejnowski: NeurIPS and the Future of AI

Eye On A.I.

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Is There a Difference Between Learning and Learning?

When we started in the 80s, we had tiny little networks. As you add more units or parameters, it scales with that number. Biology has this additional advantage that you can do it all in parallel. We're looking for ways to reduce energy. Nature vanishes to run our brain on about 20 Watts,. These large scale computers now are being used to generate transformers, right? They're about a completely different order of magnitude and six orders of magnitude away from creating megawatt-scale power plants. The Wright brothers spent their early days studying the flight by birds. What's going to learn about artificial intelligence?"

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