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The world needs more work being done in the way Hawkins and co. are doing it, and less in the mold of most deep learning/ML work. Why? He's actually trying to c
by Upvoter33 9y ago
The world needs more work being done in the way Hawkins and co. are doing it, and less in the mold of most deep learning/ML work. Why? He's actually trying to connect building intelligent machines with biology. This is a huge problem, but so few are working on it. Rather, we are all distracted by deep learning because of its recent successes in very specific problem areas. In a few years, when we run into its limits, Hawkins and people doing work like this will have a chance to shine (if they produce something that works, of course).
- pizza 9y agoBut wait a minute... the world is already doing quite a good deal of work on this type of problem. Maybe not enough, but it's been goin on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_neuroscience https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_neuroscience
- bbctol 9y agoDeepmind does a ton of work in meat neuroscience, and are actually publishing useful research in the field (a recent if somewhat controversial review at http://www.cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896-6273(17)30509-3 http://www.cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896-6273(17)30509-3) And they're about the most prominent deep learning group I can think of.
- dontreact 9y agoComputer vision and NLP are pretty broad problem areas with many applications. These technologies are already powerful enough to influence the world in many positive ways. I wouldn’t say that Actually realizing this potential is a “distraction”