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...
by Christoph Malsburg | Nov 5, 2016 | Uncategorized
AI: Nothing but Tinned Human Thought? In spite of all the feverish talk about it these days, true artificial intelligence is still remaining a fancy. We know very well what to expect from an autonomously behaving animal or of a human being, yet it is only all too...
