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#177 – Risto Miikkulainen: Neuroevolution and Evolutionary Computation

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Is Vision Fundamental to Language?

We are visual animals. A lot of the brain is dedicated to vision and also when we think about various abstract concepts, we usually reduce that division and images. It's probably possible that it predated, you know, language, even animals, a lot of, they don't talk but they certainly do have vision. You're starting to see that with all the work with Transformers was the community, the AI community started to dip their toe into this idea of having language models that are now doing stuff with images with vision and then connecting the two. Maybe at some point we'll just dive into the pool and it'll just be all seen as the same thing.

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