Brains@Bay Meetup - The Role of Active Dendrites in Learning (Aug 26, 2020)
Channel: Numenta
Date: 2020-08-27

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Brains@Bay Meetups focus on how neuroscience can inspire us to create improved artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms. In this meetup, we focus on the role of active dendrites in learning from a neuroscience and a computational perspective. 

First, Matthew Larkum (Larkum Lab) gives us an overview on the main advances in active dendrites over the last two decades. 

Then, Illenna Jones (Kording Lab) presents her new, exciting research on computational power of biological dendritic trees. 

Finally, Blake Richards (Linc Lab) argues that dendrites solve an implementation problem for brains, but they are not necessary at the algorithmic level, and the importance for ML is largely with respect to neuromorphic chips. 

Link to meetup: https://www.meetup.com/BraIns-Bay/events/272662486/

0:00 Matthew Larkum - The Role of Active Dendrites in Learning
45:55 Illenna Jones - Can single neurons solve MNIST?
1:15:08 Blake Richards - The Role of Dendrites in Machine Learning
1:44:17 Discussion / Q&A
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