How to Build a BrainChris Eliasmith
How to Build a Brain
by Chris Eliasmith · first published 2013
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Also “How to Build a Brain” by Chris Eliasmith. Interesting theories on how neurons represent functions and then build into a greater whole. I’m not a neuroscientist but my intuition says he might be getting closer to a solid mid-level…
on “DeepMind and Google: the battle to control artificial intelligence” ↗…42. How The Mind Works - Steven Pinker 43. Images and Words - Steven Pinker 44. Words and Rules - Steven Pinker 45. The Blank Slate - Steven Pinker 46. Consciousness Explained - Daniel Dennett 47. How to Build a Brain: A Neural Architecture for Biological Cognition - Chris Eliasmith 48. Introduction to Artificial Intelligence - Eugene Charniak & Drew McDermott 49. Metamagical Themas - Douglas Hofstadter 50. I Am…
on “Ask HN: What projects are you working on now?” ↗> (...) I started reading “How to Build a Brain” by Chris Eliasmith. By the end of it, I truly felt biologically plausible modelling was hugely important for the advance of Cognitive Science. Does it give a biologically plausible explanation for backpropagation?
on “China has become a major player in AI” ↗Heh. Seems to be a common pattern in book titles. There are also How to Build A Brain[1] by Chris Eliasmith and How To Create A Mind[2] by Ray Kurzweil as well. [1]: https://www.amazon.com/How-Build-Brain-Architecture-Architec... [2]: https://www.amazon.com/How-Create-Mind-Thought-Revealed/dp/1...
on “Experts starting to doubt AI ‘hallucinations’ will go away: ‘This isn’t fixable’” ↗It's the same hyperbolic nonsense we've seen from hundreds of other confident "researchers" over the past 50 years. Eliasmith has a book called "How to Build a Brain", Hawkins built an entire company, Numenta, around a theory that hasn't created anything remotely useful or interesting in almost 2 decades and has pivoted to creating tools for current ML zeitgeist methods.…
on “How to build a thinking AI” ↗…https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_architecture#Notable... Eliasmith created "Semantic Pointer Architecture" which is sort of a crossover between CS and CogSci https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaun_(Semantic_Pointer_Archit..., also see his book on "How to build a Brain" I wish the current AI research would get unstuck from local minima of deep learning, there's been so much progress in cognitive sciences in the last few decades.
on “Soar Cognitive Architecture” ↗