Can AI match the human brain? | Surya Ganguli

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🗓️ 7 March 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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AI is evolving into a mysterious new form of intelligence — powerful yet flawed, capable of remarkable feats but still far from human-like reasoning and efficiency. To truly understand it and unlock its potential, we need a new science of intelligence that combines neuroscience, AI and physics, says neuroscientist and Stanford professor Surya Ganguli. He shares a vision for a future where this interdisciplinary approach helps us create AI that mimics human cognition, while at the same time offering new ways to understand and augment our own brains.

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1:01.9	Our speaker today says to better understand artificial intelligence, we actually have to better understand intelligence itself, biological intelligence.
1:12.2	In his 2024 talk,
1:13.8	Professor of Applied Physics,
1:15.5	Surya Genguli,
1:16.8	compares how our human brains and DNA have evolved
1:20.0	with the way AI has evolved
1:21.7	and thinks through the implications
1:24.0	as AI continues to advance.
1:31.3	Okay. Okay, so what the heck happened in the field of AI in the last decade?
1:35.3	It's like a strange new type of intelligence appeared in our planet,
1:40.3	but it's not like human intelligence.
1:42.3	It has remarkable capabilities,
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