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Dalhousie professor links AI, cognitive brain in seminar

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Dr. Thomas Trappenberg of Dalhousie University presented a seminar on "AI and the Cognitive Brain: Have We Uncovered the Ingredients for Intelligence?" The talk explored theoretical underpinnings of AI, including the Modern Hopfield Model and Vector Symbolic Architectures, in a non-mathematical manner. It also considered whether these mechanisms, potentially implemented with transformers, are realized in the human brain and identified gaps in cognitive architecture. AI

IMPACT Explores theoretical underpinnings of AI and their potential parallels with human cognition, offering insights into the nature of intelligence.

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Dalhousie professor links AI, cognitive brain in seminar

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  1. Mastodon — fosstodon.org TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    Oh man, wish i was in # Halifax # NovaScotia today for this. Dr. Thomas Trappenberg, Professor in the Faculty of Computer Science at Dalhousie University, will

    Oh man, wish i was in # Halifax # NovaScotia today for this. Dr. Thomas Trappenberg, Professor in the Faculty of Computer Science at Dalhousie University, will deliver a seminar titled “AI and the Cognitive Brain: Have We Uncovered the Ingredients for Intelligence?” Given the rec…

    LINKS events.dal.ca/…/5815-seminar-series-ai-an…

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