BI 063 Uri Hasson: The Way Evolution Does It

March 15, 2020 01:32:28
BI 063 Uri Hasson: The Way Evolution Does It
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BI 063 Uri Hasson: The Way Evolution Does It

Mar 15 2020 | 01:32:28

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Uri and I discuss his recent perspective that conceives of brains as super-over-parameterized models that try to fit everything as exactly as possible rather than trying to abstract the world into usable models. He was inspired by the way artificial neural networks overfit data when they can, and how evolution works the same way on a much slower timescale.

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