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A Conversation Between Terry Sejnowski & Stephen Wolfram (February 14, 2023) [Part 1]

The Stephen Wolfram Podcast

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The Future of Artificial Neural Networks

In the brain, there's an incredible range of this working memory. You can look at a thousand pictures in a few hours and be able to recall what you've seen before. This is something that psychologists have studied - it's very surprising. And here's something else, which I think is even more amazing: when I ask you a question, within a second, whether or not, you know, the answer, right? Well, in the traditional computers, you'd have to search through the whole memory bank, right? The brain has used all the machinery and all these different timescales in order to solve problems like that one very quickly and it's a survival defense on it.

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