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AI that learns like a brain: how deep learning is changing everything
The future of work is biologically inspired.
Mario Peshev
July 06, 2025
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3 Ideas for Better Habits
Freed to Feel
AI pioneer, Kai-Fu Lee, on the future of human potential.
“AI ever allows us to truly understand ourselves, it will not be because these algorithms captured the mechanical essence of the human mind. It will be because they liberated us to forget about optimizations and to instead focus on what truly makes us human: loving and being loved.”
Winning, Not Thriving
AI expert and philosopher, Stuart Russell, on aligning intelligent machines with human values.
“The desire for relative advantage over others, rather than an absolute quality of life, is a positional good.”
Inspired by the Brain
Futurist and author, Martin Ford, on the rise of AI and the future of work.
“Deep learning is an approach to machine learning. While machine learning is trying to put knowledge into computers by allowing computers to learn from examples, deep learning is doing it in a way that is inspired by the brain.”
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Brain Food
Today I Learned: When you remember something, your brain reconstructs the memory - and can change it in the process. So every time you recall a memory, it might become a little less accurate. Your brain is more like a novelist than a camera. (Source)
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