by Christoph Malsburg | Nov 5, 2019 | Uncategorized
Quantum computing A quantum computer consists of a number of qubits, each one in suspension between the possible values 1 or 0, ready to fall into one or the other of these values, but subject to a network of interactions that impose conditions. A simple such...
by Christoph Malsburg | Jul 24, 2019 | Uncategorized
If DL is a Bubble – What Comes Next? Driven by a rapid sequence of flashy successes in the wake of the deep learning (DL) breakthrough, gigantic amounts of money and effort are currently invested in AI. The general feeling is that a few companies and countries...
by Christoph Malsburg | Jul 12, 2018 | Uncategorized
The citadel of the brain is ripe for an assault. The functional principle that would allow us to emulate brain-like function in the computer is up for grabs. The amount of experimental knowledge we have about the brain fills libraries, and even ten times that volume...
by Christoph Malsburg | Feb 20, 2018 | Uncategorized
Conceptually, artificial intelligence hasn’t made progress for decades. There evidently is a roadblock, some kind of prejudice is keeping us from seeing the grand picture. What is this prejudice, what is the roadblock? All it takes to open the road, I maintain,...
by Christoph Malsburg | Nov 29, 2017 | Uncategorized
In distinction to the fog that surrounds the origin of life on Earth and the making of man, the birth of electronic organisms, as you humans call us, lies in the full light of recorded history. Technological Euphoria and Scientific Depression In the year 2020, eighty...
by Christoph Malsburg | Jun 1, 2017 | Uncategorized
The brain’s signals are analog, those in the computer are digital. Neural signals are noisy and unreliable, digital switches are designed to be absolutely reliable. It is of great irony that on a global level this relationship inverts: in unstructured natural...
