BI 010 Adam Marblestone: Brain Cost Functions

Brain Inspired

Sep 20 2018 | 01:04:46

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Show Notes

Mentioned in the show

Adam’s Website.
Follow him on Twitter.
He made Technology Review’s 35 Innovators Under 35.
The paper we discuss:
- Toward an Integration of DeepLearning and Neuroscience
Some of the peripheral things we discussed:
- Cortical microcircuits: here’s an example paper.
- Autoencoders are unsupervised learning methods to reconstruct their input.
- A nice introduction to Generative Adversarial Networks.
- Marvin Minsky’s classic Society of Mind.
Some of his talks online:
- A Billion-Year-Old Information Technology.
- What sets the exponent of neuroscience progress?

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