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A headline from the 1950s.
by pg 18y ago
A headline from the 1950s.
- ivankirigin 18y agoWe know much more about the brain today. A similar headline can be found for using "brainlike techniques" for object detection. http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/11/2214233 http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/11/2214233 But the algorithms in this case are from numenta, jeff hawkin's company. The methodology is: 1. Study the brain 2. Come up with theories on how memory and processing in the brain work 3. Write algorithms with the same structure. I'd call that brain-like.
- jey 18y agoYeah, except that Step 2 is super sketchy and arguably unscientific at this point.
- arjungmenon 18y agoThere has been considerable progress in understanding the working of human memory in the past many decades.
- ivankirigin 18y agoI wouldn't call the thousands of researchers in the field unscientific at all. And this process is iterative. If you have an algorithm that works, the proximity to how the brain actually works is largely irrelevant.