Hinton: "Can the brain do back-propagation?"

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Stanford Colloquium on Computer Systems: a talk by Geoffrey Hinton, Apr. 27, 2016:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIRCybGgHts

A remarkable lecture...

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Additional remarks:

The talk itself is 65 min, then questions and answers. I found it useful to watch in some increments of a few minutes each, one thought at a time, rewinding often.

1) Cf. recent paper on "Outrageously Large Neural Networks", https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.06538

This has 100 billion parameters, so only 3 orders of magnitude below the size Hinton suggests for the brain.