Dr. Terry Sejnowski
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You don't need to have 100 trials, which you need when you're training a rat to do some tasks with small food rewards. But if you just shock the rat, boy, that rat doesn't forget that.
You don't need to have 100 trials, which you need when you're training a rat to do some tasks with small food rewards. But if you just shock the rat, boy, that rat doesn't forget that.
You don't need to have 100 trials, which you need when you're training a rat to do some tasks with small food rewards. But if you just shock the rat, boy, that rat doesn't forget that.
And this is also PTSD, post-traumatic stress disorder, is another good example of that. That can screw you up for the rest of your life. But the other thing, and you pointed out something really important, which is that a large part of the prefrontal cortex is devoted to social interactions.
And this is also PTSD, post-traumatic stress disorder, is another good example of that. That can screw you up for the rest of your life. But the other thing, and you pointed out something really important, which is that a large part of the prefrontal cortex is devoted to social interactions.
And this is also PTSD, post-traumatic stress disorder, is another good example of that. That can screw you up for the rest of your life. But the other thing, and you pointed out something really important, which is that a large part of the prefrontal cortex is devoted to social interactions.
And this is how humans, you know, when you come into the world, you don't know what language you're going to be speaking. You don't know what the cultural values are that you're going to have to be able to become a member of this community. society and things that are expected of you, all of that has to become through experience, through building this value function.
And this is how humans, you know, when you come into the world, you don't know what language you're going to be speaking. You don't know what the cultural values are that you're going to have to be able to become a member of this community. society and things that are expected of you, all of that has to become through experience, through building this value function.
And this is how humans, you know, when you come into the world, you don't know what language you're going to be speaking. You don't know what the cultural values are that you're going to have to be able to become a member of this community. society and things that are expected of you, all of that has to become through experience, through building this value function.
This is something we discovered in the 20th century and now it's going into AI. It's called reinforcement learning in AI. It's a form of procedural learning as opposed to the cognitive level where you think and you do things. Cognitive thinking is much less efficient. because you have to go step by step. With procedural learning, it's automatic.
This is something we discovered in the 20th century and now it's going into AI. It's called reinforcement learning in AI. It's a form of procedural learning as opposed to the cognitive level where you think and you do things. Cognitive thinking is much less efficient. because you have to go step by step. With procedural learning, it's automatic.
This is something we discovered in the 20th century and now it's going into AI. It's called reinforcement learning in AI. It's a form of procedural learning as opposed to the cognitive level where you think and you do things. Cognitive thinking is much less efficient. because you have to go step by step. With procedural learning, it's automatic.
Well, no, you know a lot of examples, but since we've been talking about tennis, can you imagine learning how to play tennis through a book, reading a book?
Well, no, you know a lot of examples, but since we've been talking about tennis, can you imagine learning how to play tennis through a book, reading a book?
Well, no, you know a lot of examples, but since we've been talking about tennis, can you imagine learning how to play tennis through a book, reading a book?
It's really essential for things that have to be executed quickly and expertly to get that really down pat so you don't have to think. And This happens in school, right? In other words, you have classroom lessons where you're given explicit instruction, but then you go do homework. That's procedural learning. You do problems, you solve problems.
It's really essential for things that have to be executed quickly and expertly to get that really down pat so you don't have to think. And This happens in school, right? In other words, you have classroom lessons where you're given explicit instruction, but then you go do homework. That's procedural learning. You do problems, you solve problems.
It's really essential for things that have to be executed quickly and expertly to get that really down pat so you don't have to think. And This happens in school, right? In other words, you have classroom lessons where you're given explicit instruction, but then you go do homework. That's procedural learning. You do problems, you solve problems.
And I'm a PhD physicist, so I went through all of the classes in theoretical physics. And it was really the problems that really were the core of becoming a good physicist. You can memorize the equations, but that doesn't mean you understand how to use the equations.
And I'm a PhD physicist, so I went through all of the classes in theoretical physics. And it was really the problems that really were the core of becoming a good physicist. You can memorize the equations, but that doesn't mean you understand how to use the equations.