How to Build a Brain: Chris Eliasmith at TEDxWaterloo 2013
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- Опубліковано 16 лип 2024
- He's the creator of "Spaun" the world's largest brain simulation. Can he really make headway into mimicking the human brain?
Chris Eliasmith has cognitive flexibility on the brain. How do people manage to walk, chew gum and listen to music all at the same time? What is our brain doing as it switches between these tasks and how do we use the same components in head to do all those different things? These are questions that Chris and his team's Semantic Pointer Architecture Unified Network (Spaun) are determined to answer. Spaun is currently the world's largest functional brain simulation, and is unique because it's the first model that can actually emulate behaviours while also modeling the physiology that underlies them.
This groundbreaking work was published in Science, and has been featured by CNN, BBC, Der Spiegel, Popular Science, The Economist and CBC.He is co-author of Neural Engineering , which describes a framework for building biologically realistic neural models and his new book, How to Build a Brain applies those methods to large-scale cognitive brain models.
Chris holds a Canada Research Chair in Theoretical Neuroscience at the University of Waterloo. He is also Director of Waterloo's Centre for Theoretical Neuroscience, and is jointly appointed in the Philosophy, Systems Design Engineering departments, as well as being cross-appointed to Computer Science.
For more on Chris, visit arts.uwaterloo.ca/~celiasmi/
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Thank god he said it is open source.
Wow! it's such amazing powerful connection between neural science and programming to make human-like brain.
Amazing!! As a psychology student, I think I should start to learn some programming as computer-based models seem to become more and more prominent
hiii,I'm clinical psychologist. i JUST SAW THIS and right now i feel so related with you (hours ago i was so lost about my future)
Please tell me , how did you connect the motor cortex with the rest of the brain?
Link to open source plz
amazin
Is SPAUN similar to HTM? I find HTM to be the closest computer algorithm to the actual human brain, as it is based on the Memory Prediction Framework, which is a Unified Brain Theory developed by Jeff Hawkins. The main problem is that most people seem to only try to do things like basic object recognition with it, and don't bother to use it for actual AI.
Excellent talk, but it is very contradictory that you want to understand how the brain works in general, but that such an idea was "yours"
This is amazing!! I am currently working on an educational and research tool where you can build a neural network to control a robot. It's called Brain Crafter.
ready?
can you give me more information about that?
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wait how real is this? Is this something that is made or a thought experiment? Is this a program or already a machine? How can a computer forget the middle number? Doesnt it just store it? It is not the same as a human brain right?
With this new understanding, maybe we can stop people from killing themselves, and do something about the insanely high global suicide rate that causes more deaths than all wars and murders combined. The suicide rate in the United States hasn't budged in 70 years, despite all the medical advances since then.
He looks like Aaron Paul's hippie doppelganger, I doubt he'll ever shout '' SCIENCE, BITCH'' though
Well, he may never say it but that is certainly the implication
The possibility of Artificial General Intelligence