Special Episode: Language in Brains and Machines
The Science of Everything Podcast
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The Importance of Backpropagation in Artificial Intelligence
Backpropagation is an algorithm that computer programs use. It's used in a very large number of the major machine learning models, particularly language models. Back propagation allows a credit assignment for each of the different layers backwards across the network. But it's pretty much known to be not plausible for the brain to implement.
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