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What would your guess be for that area?
by nairboon 11y ago
What would your guess be for that area?
- sixQuarks 11y agoBiology would be the "obvious" answer, but more specifically, I could see a breakthrough coming from psychedelic research, which is making a huge comeback right now after decades of ridicule. It's amazing how little research has been conducted in this area, a lot of scientists are rediscovering and relearning things that were first explored back in the 60s, and there's already been lots of progress related to human psychology.
- tim333 11y agoDeep Mind are working on the biology thing and more specifically study of the human brain. Demis Hassabis, the main guy at Deep Mind did a PhD in cognitive neuroscience and is focused on that stuff. Not so sure about psychedelic research - I don't know how you'd use that to build computer systems even if the Google dream pictures are pretty trippy looking. (https://www.google.com/search?q=google+dreams&num=20&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj41bDriNvKAhXDuo4KHZxNC40QsAQIHw&biw=1093&bih=478 https://www.google.com/search?q=google+dreams&num=20&tbm=isc...)
- sixQuarks 11y agoActually, you just brought up a great point. The Google dream pictures are very similar to what you might see during a psychedelic experience. I admit I don't know how psychedelic research could help in building AI, I'm just saying that my hunch is that a breakthrough in AI will come about from left field somewhere.