Seminars

Date
Title
Speaker
Location
5:30 pm

How the Brain Understands the World - Implications for AI and robotics

Jeff Hawkins

Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, Calvin Lab auditorium and via Zoom (see note below to request the zoom link)

Today’s AI systems are powerful, but they work on principles very different from those of the human brain. They typically learn from large, static datasets, operate as black boxes, and need retraining for each new task. The brain, by contrast, learns continuously through active interaction with the world, builds structured models of what it senses, and generalizes across many kinds of tasks with remarkable efficiency.  In this talk, Jeff Hawkins explains how the brain’s sensorimotor principles allow it to understand the world, and why reverse-engineering the neocortex may provide a blueprint for a new kind of artificial intelligence.  The Thousand Brains Project is an open-source effort to turn these principles into a practical framework for researchers and developers.

Reception at 5:30pm, talk at 6pm.
Please register in advance if you plan to attend.

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12:00 pm

To be announced

David Clark

Warren Hall room 205A and via Zoom (see note below to request the zoom link)

To be announced.

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