On Brains, Minds, And Their Possible Uses
On Brains, Minds, And Their Possible Uses
Serendipitous connections: applying explanations from AI to the brain. Audio version.
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Serendipitous connections: applying explanations from AI to the brain. Audio version.

TL;DR: A small shift in perspective (Elhage et al., 2021) helps interpret the ventral stream in the biological brain as the residual stream from ResNets. Experimental support, pre-, and post-dictions.
Jan Hendrik Kirchner
May 29, 2022
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On Brains, Minds, And Their Possible Uses
Serendipitous connections: applying explanations from AI to the brain
I recently read the new Transformers Circuit work by Elhage et al. at Anthropic. While I am in no position to judge the importance of the paper for AI, (not that this has ever stopped me from sharing my opinion before) the paper made me connect some ideas from neuroscience that I couldn't connect before. This post is capturing those connections. I’m not…
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On Brains, Minds, And Their Possible Uses
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