Mark Ring asserts the human brain is an isolaminar learning mechanism
Mark Ring · Mark Ring · Jul 28, 2017 · at 3:59
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AI researcher Mark Ring presents his theory on isolaminar mechanisms in biological and artificial intelligence at the a16z Academic Roundtable.
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“The brain Is an isolaminar mechanism. You get one brain. No one gets to tinker with it and change it while you're growing up.”
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