Take the hour you'll need to watch or listen to this lecture (perhaps over lunch, as I did) by neurobiologist Robin Hiesinger. The video asks the basic question: how do you grow intelligence? Hiesinger gives us the story of the subject that winds through the history of artificial intelligence, discoveries about how bees, worms and butterflies learn, and how algorithmic information theory describes how the genome grows into a new neural network, and how this process, through evolution, produces smarter and more specialized neural networks. This talk touches on many topics familiar to readers of OLDaily over the last 20 years, but there is a whole second half that could (and should) be discussed, about how actual mechanisms of experience, training and development result in education and learning. Still, this is great stuff, and will certainly make you ponder the deep questions.
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