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Teemu Soilamo
@teemusoilamo
Steve,
Are you familiar with Mary Lou Jepsen's work on functional near-infrared imaging? She claims to have invented a ski hat sized device that exceeds fMRI in both temporal and spatial resolution and could eventually be manufactured at consumer electronics prices. Some now believe that incorporating deep neural networks to simultaneously predict brain states correlated with actions (say, writing or speaking) could lead to a whole new paradigm of AI development. In other words, we wouldn't need to understand HOW the brain does it, but WHAT it does and WHEN it does it with respect to the input datastream. The brain probably contains a panoply of implicit semantic meaning encoding that can help label and classify different kinds of input. By using that innate capability as a bootstrap, we can effectively bypass the "understanding" part. Any thoughts on this?
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Steve Jurvetson
@dfjsteve · Partner, DFJ
@teemusoilamo Just spent my birthday with her. She is an amazing polymath. First met her at the 2012 Google Solve for X retreat: https://www.flickr.com/photos/ju...
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