Questions tagged [artificial-intelligence]
For questions regarding this interdisciplinary subject (largely a subdiscipline of computer science) which strives to create intelligent machines.
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Is there any type of neuron capable of modeling "nonlinear function" (e.g. trigonometric, instead of "linear" in traditional Neural Networks)?
Modern Deep Learning technologies such as Self Attention and RNN, kind of integrated higher-degree nonlinear functions fundamentally. e.g. $(w_{1_{branch1}}x_1 + w_{2_{branch1}}x_2) \cdot (w_{1_{...
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Could a superintelligent spider be more human like than a normal spider? (or any other animal) [closed]
From a text (1) about AI and, in particular, ASI (Artificial Superintelligence)
A guinea pig is a mammal and on some biological level, I feel a connection to it—but a spider is an insect, with an ...
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Is there any recent review of the book "Scripts, Plans, Goals, and Understanding: An Inquiry Into Human Knowledge Structures"?
My advisor asked me to read this book. However, I wonder if there is some recent review of the book that integrates AI and cognitive findings in recent years. Just want to know if there's any view in ...
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What does "all-or-nothing" means in spiking neural network?
I'm reading a paper by Auge et al. (2021). In the introduction they said "Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) use short 'all-or-nothing' pulses to encode and transmit information".
I'm not sure ...
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How do we know that neurons are the only cells involved in cognitive computation?
I am an undergraduate studying pure mathematics taking a class on computational neuroscience. My default lens for looking at the brain is in terms of universal computation (in the Turing machine sense)...
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What underlying psychological mechanisms could cause a person or a group to experience the bandwagon effect?
People in a target audience are likely to experience the bandwagon effect [1] because they rely on others' assessment of information. Overall, taking advantage of the bandwagon effect can be ...
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Can the human brain be simulated by a computer?
There is a Wikipedia page on brain simulation, but:
Question: Could there be (experimental) evidence that the (human) brain cannot be simulated by a computer?
Note that the Wikipedia page Mind ...
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Is a New Software Library to Simulate Natural Processes like Hunger Needed?
This sort of dovetails off a question I asked on the AI Exchange: Is There A Need For Stochastic Inputs To Mimic Real-World Biology And Environment?
I figured this site would give more insight on ...
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Where to find patient responses on Rorschach's Inkblot test?
I am looking to find data that has patient's responses to Rorschach's inblots as well and their associated diagnosis ( Mainly looking into patients that have been diagnosed with schizophrenia, ...
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What became of the CAM-Brain project in Kyoto?
In The Age of Spiritual Machines, Ray Kurzweil mentioned a project at the Advanced Telecommunications Research Lab in Kyoto that was building a brain with a billion artificial neurons. He said that ...
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Can we use artificial intelligence in law? [closed]
I'm from india, there are more than 3 crore cases pending in different courts of India
which is nearly impossible to solve in a limited period of time.. unless we use robot instead of a person.
I know ...
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Looking for a paper: AI in human host
I am searching for a paper where participants were confronted with a (female) person, who gave answers according to a computer algorithm. She had an earpiece that gave her the answers and was trained ...
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Integrated Information Theory - If correct could humans create artificial consciousness?
First off please keep in mind I am self-learning and am learning about this for fun, I have no end goal. I'm trying to make predictions about what I am learning implies or means, so I can ask better ...
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Is there a biological equivalent to the bias term used in artificial neural networks?
For the longest time, I had been thinking that the bias term used in the standard artificial neural network model (the ubiquitous one used in most machine learning implementations) can be interpreted ...
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Is it fair to categorize the neurons in the output layer of artificial neural networks as grandmother cells?
I'm interested in how memory is distributed in the brain. That inevitably leads one to think about grandmother cells.
Under my interpretation, a neuron (or a small ensemble) would classify as a ...
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