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

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What Is Cognitive Modeling?

Rummelhart was one of the first assistant professors in the Department of Psychology at UCSD. He had gotten interested in understanding and understanding what does it mean to understand anyway? It's an interesting sort of curious, like, how would we know if we really understood something? But he was interested in building machines that would hear a couple of sentences and have an insight about what was going on.

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