Imagine being behind the wheel of a brand-new self-driving vehicle sometime in the future. It is not fully autonomous, but the car does 90 percent of the driving. At the same time, you are the driver, the supervisor overseeing it all, who can take the wheel the remaining 10 percent of the time when needed. […]
Humanity’s greatest challenge is to understand how the brain works.1 Neuroscientists, aided by discoveries in neuroscience and artificial intelligence, are inching closer to this answer each day. While the brain’s full functionality remains a mystery, we have enough information to form a general concept. This concept helps us understand how the brain, as a living […]
Our neurons are highly interconnected computers that receive, process, and transmit electrochemical impulses. The output cables run here and there, connecting every neuron in some way to form an intricate network that supports the communication of 86 billion computers. Such an extensive, complex network needs help to function properly; that is where the other 85 […]
Our brain is similar to an internet service provider with 86 billion computers connected to a network. Each neuron processes information, receiving and sending signals to many others over a labyrinth of output cables connecting it all together. Every computer communicates over these cables, forming complex networks supporting all the signals they transmit. Our 85 […]
The human brain is a colony of neurons working collectively as a single network. It is similar to how a network for an internet service provider connects millions of computers. Our brain has 86 billion of them connected in its network. The difference with ours is that all of the computers work cooperatively as a […]
Artificial intelligence has come a long way since its humble beginnings in the 1940s, with recent discoveries catapulting it into the mainstream.1 The goal of scientists and engineers behind it all has always been to build an intelligent machine equal to a human. That has been the driving force behind all the advancements in AI. […]
Modern technology owes itself to traditional rules-based programming.1 Everything from Microsoft Word, Call of Duty, Minecraft, Instagram, smartphone apps, and websites use hardcoded step-by-step instructions to work.2 Coders write a list of commands, line after line, in a computer language, telling the program exactly what to do. Each one has thousands of lines of code […]
Neural networks have appeared in all life outside of sponges for the last 635-540 million years.1 They first appeared in tiny worm-like creatures and have been progressing in complexity through different worm, insect, fish, amphibian, reptile, bird, and mammal species ever since.2 Each animal category is like a different network class and type, marking a […]
Our brain is a learning network that uses plasticity to form circuits that become the automatic thoughts, behaviors, habits, skills, and actions that drive us.1 Outside of hardwired circuits are those that take shape through experience. We have billions of activity-dependent neurons lying in position, waiting to fire and connect based on what we do. […]
We are human vehicles equipped with a learning network that impartially wires lessons from experience into functional patterns representing our skills and abilities. When we are born, our genes hardwire patterns that provide survival skills like recoiling from pain and eating. The rest of the skills we acquire come from interacting with our environment. Our […]
Mastery is available to anyone willing to get on the path and stay on it. We must look foolish and persevere through the instincts telling us to stop. Mastery is an impersonal universal process that we can wire with 10,000 hours of deliberate practice. It is simple in theory but difficult in application, making achieving […]
Imagine eating a salt and vinegar chip or a sour candy, the sound of nails on a chalkboard, jumping into a freezing lake, someone you love, someone you hate, breaking a bone, riding on a rollercoaster, a sunny day on a beach, or performing in front of a crowd of people. Simply thinking of sights, […]
If nature is an AI company manufacturing different products with networks, then genes are what build them. Genes construct each of us from one cell according to the Homosapien blueprint. Some believe that who we are is rigid and predefined by our genes. The reality is that who we become is not set in stone, […]
Imagine getting into a driverless Taxi sometime in the future. There would be no wheel or gas pedal, only passenger seats, because the car drives itself. Once an idea straight out of a page from a science-fiction novel, self-driving vehicles are becoming a reality. Many people are hesitant about the idea of being a passenger […]
Visualize yourself sometime in the future, sitting in the driver’s seat of a new, Level 4 high-automation, self-driving vehicle. The car will have many sensors allowing it to see the world and a network tuned through experience to navigate the environment. As the driver, you turn on the car, enter a destination, and it will […]