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Computational cognitive science. I'm in the process of going back to studying. My employer knows this, as well as most my friends and peers. I plan to spend th
by pinouchon 10y ago
Computational cognitive science.
I'm in the process of going back to studying. My employer knows this, as well as most my friends and peers. I plan to spend the next two scholar years (starting in 2017) to take a master in cognitive science. I have worked for 3 years in web development since graduating and have enough money stashed to make the transition.
I'll likely write a lot less code, and more maths and english.
My primary motivation is that I believe that breakthroughs in AI and cognitive science at the computational Marr's level are going to have a huge impact, and I want to be a part of it.
- raverbashing 10y agoToo bad modern AI developments have absolutely nothing to do with "cognitive science"
- rfrey 10y agoNot true. Geoffrey Hinton is only interested in cognitive science (he said in a speech I heard that he thinks it's delightful that there are practical applications that lead Google to pay for his research, but he doesn't care at all about them, only about understanding the brain), and Rich Sutton started there and continues to actively follow and think about cognition.
- raverbashing 10y agoTo what it relates to neuroscience I agree, but in the end it's mostly mathematical models that don't connect much to (physical) reality
- rfrey 10y agoI guess my point is that to some of the top researchers, the current developments are a means to an end, and the end is understanding cognition. Totally agreed that if you're into the deep learning/CNN development, especially the practical side, the connection to brains is only through the "neural" analogy.
- qntty 10y agoNot entirely true, there are some overlaps. See: computational linguistics[1] for example [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_linguistics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_linguistics