Why Humans and Robots must Dream
About this episode
The episode discusses how the brain's visual cortex adapts to sensory input and the implications for human-robot interaction.
Send us Fan Mail Put a blindfold on a sighted adult and the visual cortex starts being colonised by touch and hearing within forty-five minutes. Not weeks. Not days. Forty-five minutes. This is not a quirk of extreme cases. It is how the cortex works all the time. Every region of the brain is in continuous low-grade negotiation with its neighbours over territory, and the currency of that negotiation is activity. Stop using a subsystem and the neighbours move in, fast. This is the empirical fo...
More episodes of Embedded AI - Intelligence at the Deep Edge
- Sovereign AI and the End of the Borderless Cloud
- The Agentic AI Reckoning: Autonomy, Safety, and the Edge
- The High Interest of Leveraged AI Technical Debt
- Pi and the Mirage of Patternicity
- The Missing Clock: Why Intelligence Needs Time
- Will Robots Evolve into Crabs?
Explore listener stats, chart rankings, contacts and more on the Embedded AI - Intelligence at the Deep Edge podcast page.