Matthew Cook's talk on April 7
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Nikolay Vereshchagin
Apr 2, 2025, 6:58:17 AMApr 2
to Kolmogorov seminar on complexity
Date: April 7, 2025
Time: 18:30 MSK, 16:30 CET
Speaker: Matthew Cook
Title: The Understanding MachineZoom link: https://u-bordeaux-fr.zoom.us/j/88402787361?pwd=WktCdEhBT3pXN0pLUGg4Z3RuMlpsQT09
Abstract:
One of the still-distant goals of AI is to generate understanding out of raw data. After all, a brain is a machine that can do this. Inspired by how the visual cortex appears to operate, combined with a simple algebra for manipulating an abstraction of the structures that arise, we look at what happens when we apply this to trying to understand the one-dimensional world of binary addition problems. Starting with raw data, and then mechanically applying the simplifying rules of the algebra, we indeed reach a new understanding, yielding a new binary addition algorithm.
One of the still-distant goals of AI is to generate understanding out of raw data. After all, a brain is a machine that can do this. Inspired by how the visual cortex appears to operate, combined with a simple algebra for manipulating an abstraction of the structures that arise, we look at what happens when we apply this to trying to understand the one-dimensional world of binary addition problems. Starting with raw data, and then mechanically applying the simplifying rules of the algebra, we indeed reach a new understanding, yielding a new binary addition algorithm.
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