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...
by Christoph Malsburg | Apr 27, 2017 | Uncategorized
The world is abuzz with the brave new digital world. What used to be laborious and time consuming, inefficient and unreliable is now effortless, efficient, ultra-reliable, blisteringly fast and hip, a mere matter of pointing and clicking. Let’s leave...
by Christoph Malsburg | Jan 22, 2017 | Uncategorized
Two camps are vying for the wreath of creating artificial intelligence: one is centered on the computer as its intellectual focus, the other is emphasizing studying the brain. Which of the two camps will win? The Contestants: A The Computer Camp. The computer...
by Christoph Malsburg | Dec 10, 2016 | Uncategorized
When we come into this world, it takes us three years or less to build up in our brain a model box with which to reconstruct in our mind real-time representations of the reality immediately surrounding us. We are then able to speak and be conscious about that...
by Christoph Malsburg | Nov 20, 2016 | Uncategorized
The world is on the slippery slope towards handing serious decisions to machines: autonomous cars, war drones, robots and security surveillance systems. The driving forces are digital technology and confidence in AI and the wide-spread belief that the behavior...
