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Saturday, January 20, 2018

Neural news from Kurz Weil

Tracking a thought’s fleeting trip through the brain
January 17, 2018

tracking the brain in real time 
Why people sometimes say things before they think
Repeating a word: as the brain receives (yellow), interpretes (red), and responds (blue) within a second, the prefrontal cortex (red) coordinates all areas of the brain involved. (video credit: Avgusta Shestyuk/UC Berkeley). Recording the electrical activity of neurons directly from the surface of the brain, using electrocorticograhy (ECoG)*, neuroscientists were able to track the flow … more…


Deep neural network models score higher than humans in reading and comprehension test
January 15, 2018

(credit: Alibaba Group) 
"Update your AGI predictions"--- Prof. Roman Yampolskiy, PhD‏ @romanyam
Microsoft and Alibaba have developed deep neural network models that scored higher than humans in a Stanford University reading and comprehension test, Stanford Question Answering Dataset (SQuAD). Microsoft achieved 82.650 on the ExactMatch (EM) metric* on Jan. 3, and Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. scored 82.440 on Jan. 5. The best human score so far is … more…

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