• #2 - Professor Keith Downing - Emergent Intelligence, Evolutionary Algorithms and Computational Neuroscience

  • Dec 3 2020
  • Length: 1 hr and 13 mins
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#2 - Professor Keith Downing - Emergent Intelligence, Evolutionary Algorithms and Computational Neuroscience

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  • 4 billion years ago the earth was bombarded with photons, a short while later a Tesla got launched into space. This week I'm speaking to Professor Keith Downing about emergent phenomena; which the above scenario is a prime example of, alongside the formation of a baby from a fertilised egg, economies from individual interactions and for good measure alcohol from respiring yeast!

    Full synopsis:

    0:00 - Intro
    1:20 - Emergence and emergent systems
    13:20 - Evolution and its algorithms
    23:40 - Theory of facilitated variation
    31:30 - Neural Information vs Synthetic Information
    41:30 - Evolutionary computation vs Neural networks
    48:25 - Re-enforcement learning
    1:02:15 - Building intelligence - neural net architectures
    1:07:00 - Advice and Book recommendations
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