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Yoshua Bengio: The Past, Present, and Future of Deep Learning

The Gradient: Perspectives on AI

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Is It a Biologist's Inspiration?

I think the mental construction of what we need for AI and so on is something that came slowly with maturation years and years after I decided to go this way. So I guess I just followed my intuition initially without having a strong like argument in my head. But it built up over the years. Thanks to also discussing with lots of my peers, of course. Right, right. A lot of neuroscientists may think that might work in the work of other people like Jeff Hinton. It doesn't qualify as really strongly constrained by biology and their rights. Because if we just copy details that are in brains, but we don't understand why they would make sense, usually we go nowhere

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