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BI 125 Doris Tsao, Tony Zador, Blake Richards: NAISys

Jan 19, 2022
01:11:05

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Doris, Tony, and Blake are the organizers for this year's NAISys conference, From Neuroscience to Artificially Intelligent Systems (NAISys), at Cold Spring Harbor. We discuss the conference itself, some history of the neuroscience and AI interface, their current research interests, and a handful of topics around evolution, innateness, development, learning, and the current and future prospects for using neuroscience to inspire new ideas in artificial intelligence.

0:00 - Intro 4:16 - Tony Zador 5:38 - Doris Tsao 10:44 - Blake Richards 15:46 - Deductive, inductive, abductive inference 16:32 - NAISys 33:09 - Evolution, development, learning 38:23 - Learning: plasticity vs. dynamical structures 54:13 - Different kinds of understanding 1:03:05 - Do we understand evolution well enough? 1:04:03 - Neuro-AI fad? 1:06:26 - Are your problems bigger or smaller now?

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