Dale Purves, Duke Neuroscientist, Part 2: What Human Brains Teach Us About Computer Brains

As Dale explains it, our brains have been practicing how to respond to stimuli for millennia. While humans have been around longer than computers, computers can “practice” harder and longer than humans can. And so, through practice, computers can get really good at what they do really quickly. Interestingly, according to Dale, different computers may learn differently, and so machine learning may yield different results by different computers – sort of like how different people learn differently and thus make different decisions. Where will it all lead? Troy and Lee’s wrap-up conversation explores some of the themes they discussed with Dale.