Why AI Is Doomed Without Neuroscience
This is the road to next-generation AI
One question at the core of AI has remained unanswered for 70 years — without giving any signs it’ll be resolved anytime soon:
“How much should artificial general intelligence (AGI) resemble the human brain?”
We know a lot more about the human brain than we did half a century ago. Yet, its deepest mysteries seem to be as out of reach as they were at the very beginning.
You may think it doesn’t matter if we don’t understand it — after all, we’re living in a golden era of AI research and development. But that’s only partially true.
It matters. Much more than many in the field think.
That’s why a group of high-profile scientists (DL pioneers Yoshua Bengio and Yann LeCun among them) published in October a whitepaper entitled “Toward Next-Generation Artificial Intelligence: Catalyzing the NeuroAI Revolution.”
They arrived at the conclusion that, if we want to build AGI, “neuroscience progress should continue to drive AI progress:”
