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Understand the cogs to understand cognition

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 November 2017

Adam H. Marblestone ,
Greg Wayne  and
Konrad P. Kording
Adam H. Marblestone
Affiliation:
Synthetic Neurobiology Group, MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA 02474. adam.h.marblestone@gmail.com http://www.adammarblestone.org/
Greg Wayne
Affiliation:
DeepMind, London N1 9DR, UK. gregwayne@gmail.com
Konrad P. Kording
Affiliation:
Departments of Bioengineering and Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104. kording@upenn.edu www.kordinglab.com
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Abstract

Lake et al. suggest that current AI systems lack the inductive biases that enable human learning. However, Lake et al.'s proposed biases may not directly map onto mechanisms in the developing brain. A convergence of fields may soon create a correspondence between biological neural circuits and optimization in structured architectures, allowing us to systematically dissect how brains learn.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 40 , 2017 , e272
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2017 

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