some of Google’s projects are reproducing high-level quirks of the human visual cortex.
While the work that the visual cortex does is complex and hard to crack (from where we are now), it doesn’t seem like being able to replicate that leads to AGI. Is there a reason I should think otherwise?
There is the ‘one learning algorithm’ hypothesis, that most of the brain uses a single algorithm for learning and pattern recognition. Rather than specialized modules for doing vision, and another for audio, etc.
The evidence experiments where they cut the connection from the eyes to the visual cortex in an animal, and rerouted it to the auditory cortex (and I think vice versa.) The animal then learned to see fine, and it’s auditory cortex just learned how to do vision instead.
While the work that the visual cortex does is complex and hard to crack (from where we are now), it doesn’t seem like being able to replicate that leads to AGI. Is there a reason I should think otherwise?
There is the ‘one learning algorithm’ hypothesis, that most of the brain uses a single algorithm for learning and pattern recognition. Rather than specialized modules for doing vision, and another for audio, etc.
The evidence experiments where they cut the connection from the eyes to the visual cortex in an animal, and rerouted it to the auditory cortex (and I think vice versa.) The animal then learned to see fine, and it’s auditory cortex just learned how to do vision instead.