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Comment Hassabis thinks the brain uses back-prop (Score 0) 175

Hassabis believes that sensory learning in the cortex is supervised and based on backpropagation. Not even wrong. Is this the man who is going to solve AGI?

From his recent Cell paper, Neuroscience-Inspired Artificial Intelligence:

A different class of local learning rule has been shown to allow hierarchical supervised networks to generate high-level invariances characteristic of biological systems, including mirror-symmetric tuning to physically symmetric stimuli, such as faces (Leibo et al., 2017). Taken together, recent AI research offers the promise of discovering mechanisms by which the brain may implement algorithms with the functionality of backpropagation. Moreover, these developments illustrate the potential for synergistic interactions between AI and neuroscience: research aimed to develop biologically plausible forms of backpropagation have also been motivated by the search for alternative learning algorithms.

What?

Comment The movie industry are the real thieves (Score -1) 92

Your criticisms of the film industry do not justify theft, no matter how much you pretend otherwise.

This is BS. Hollywood and the rest of the movie industry abuse unfair and unjust copyright laws to destroy the free market and make a hell of lot more money than they deserve. Any time one imposes restrictions on the freedom of others, one destroys the free market. No actor should be worth close to a billion dollars for spewing hot air. I will not shed any tears for the movie industry if people use KODI to watch their shit (mostly libtard propaganda) for free.

Comment Space (distance) is an illusion (Score -1) 94

One day, in the not too distant future, physicists will wake up from their self-imposed stupor and realize that distance is an illusion of the mind. It does not exist. We will develop technologies that will allow us to travel instantly from anywhere to anywhere. Of course, the aliens, if they exist, have figured this out eons ago and regularly visit us without our knowledge. :-)

Remember this. The best way to determine whether or not something exists physically is to ask the question that Immanuel Kant asked. If it exists, where is it? And what is it made of?

Now you know why distance does not exist.

Submission + - Kodi no longer free? If trolls get their way, you might have to pay! (betanews.com)

BrianFagioli writes: Kodi is apparently fighting on another front too — it is battling what it calls "trademark trolls." Yes, apparently some people are looking to exploit the open source software's name for profit. This could potentially lead to people having to pay a fee when selling or buying Kodi devices.

"At least one trademark troll has so far not agreed to voluntarily release their grasp on their registration of our trademark and is actively blackmailing hardware vendors in an entire country, trying to become as rich as possible off of our backs and the backs of Kodi volunteers everywhere. His name is Geoff Gavora. He had written several letters to the Foundation over the years, expressing how important XBMC and Kodi were to him and his sales. And then, one day, for whatever reason, he decided to register the Kodi trademark in his home country of Canada. We had hoped, given the positive nature of his past emails, that perhaps he was doing this for the benefit of the Foundation. We learned, unfortunately, that this was not the case," says Nathan Betzen, Kodi Project Manager.

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