[14:30] Coast-to-Coast Seminar: Real Intelligence: The Anticipating Brain

Speaker: Dr. Thomas Trappenberg, Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University

The area of AI was always inspired by the human mind. I will try to give some perspective of new directions in AI from new hypothesis about cognitive processes and neuroscience. Huge progress has been made in the scientific areas of neuroscience on one side and machine learning on the other, but it seems that these areas developed largely independently since the exciting days of the perceptron half a century ago. However, there is now some exciting new convergence of these areas of research. In particular, generative systems have made a strong impact on machine learning, and probabilistic reasoning replaced most of traditional expert-system approaches. This seminar will explore related new developments in computational neuroscience, specifically systems with a large top-down component that are capable of learning to anticipate the world. We further discuss representations of uncertainties in the brain and how synaptic mechanisms may contribute in such systems.

NOTE: due to the size and complexity of delivering cross-country seminars, we regret we cannot support desktop AG connections for the Coast-to-Coast seminars

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