50 min
Reading Minds & Machines
Brain Imaging, Computational Neuroscience, Deep Learning and seminar by Michal Irani, Weizmann Institute
Wednesday 11:00 New York (GMT-5)
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Abstract
1. Can we reconstruct images that a person saw, directly from their fMRI brain recordings?
2. Can we reconstruct the training data that a deep-network trained on, directly from the parameters of the network?
The answer to both of these intriguing questions is “Yes!”
In this talk I will present some of our work in both domains. I will then show how combining the power of Brains and Machines can lead to significant breakthroughs in both areas, and potentially bridge the gap between Minds and Machines. Finally, I will show how combining the power of Multiple Brains (with NO shared data) may lead to new breakthrough discoveries in Brain-Science, and allow mapping of information between different brains.
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