Cortex
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Humans can learn to control individual cortical neurons within minutes via feedback
“If I put an electrode almost anywhere in your brain and then wake you up in during surgery, And I show you a flashing light that is, that flashes proportionally to how much that neuron is firing, at least almost anywhere in cortex. Within a couple of minutes, …”
Sutskever: A single uniform architecture is all that is needed for general intelligence
“These are fairly well-known ideas in AI that the cortex of humans and animals are extremely uniform. And so that further supports the, yeah, like you just need one, you need big, uniform architecture. That's all you need.”
Tversky: Visual-spatial processing precedes language and occupies more of the cortex
“The visual spatial world precedes language evolutionarily. It takes up far more of the cortex than language, and it has to have its own logic, not logic based, not a logic or a structural Based on language.”
LeCun: Face Detection in Cortex Is Rapidly Learned, Not Innately Hardwired
“Face detection can be learned in minutes. If you're a baby, your vergence is bad. Your focus is, is basically fixed at a relatively short range. So the only thing you see during the first weeks of your life are faces and nipples, essentially. So, you know, and…”
Musk: Humans are bandwidth-limited between their brains and digital tools
“I think having a high bandwidth interface to the brain, like we're currently bandwidth limited. We have a digital tertiary self in the form of our email capabilities, our computers, phones, applications we're effectively superhuman but we're extremely bandwidt…”