1 00:00:05,862 --> 00:00:07,664 GOOD AFTERNOON, EVERYONE. 2 00:00:07,664 --> 00:00:09,432 WELCOME TO THE WALS WEDNESDAY 3 00:00:09,432 --> 00:00:12,502 AFTERNOON LECTURE SERIES TODAY. 4 00:00:12,502 --> 00:00:14,871 I'M GRACE WONG, PROGRAM DIRECTOR 5 00:00:14,871 --> 00:00:16,306 NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF 6 00:00:16,306 --> 00:00:18,174 NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND 7 00:00:18,174 --> 00:00:19,943 STROKE AND I ALSO WORK FOR THE 8 00:00:19,943 --> 00:00:22,378 BRAIN INITIATIVE. I'M DELIGHT TO 9 00:00:22,378 --> 00:00:24,747 BED HERE TODAY. BUT BEFORE WE 10 00:00:24,747 --> 00:00:26,049 START SOME VERY IMPORTANT 11 00:00:26,049 --> 00:00:27,217 INFORMATION FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO 12 00:00:27,217 --> 00:00:29,953 ARE HERE FOR CONTINUING MEDICAL 13 00:00:29,953 --> 00:00:32,288 EDUCATION CREDITS THE CODE IS, 14 00:00:32,288 --> 00:00:36,459 LOOK AT THAT, 57659. IF YOU ARE 15 00:00:36,459 --> 00:00:38,661 ATTENDING VIRTUALLY, AND HAVE 16 00:00:38,661 --> 00:00:40,630 QUESTIONS, PLEASE HIT THE SEND 17 00:00:40,630 --> 00:00:43,166 LIVE FEEDBACK ON THE VIDEOCAST 18 00:00:43,166 --> 00:00:45,501 PAGE AND YOUR QUESTIONS WILL BE 19 00:00:45,501 --> 00:00:48,504 ASKED AT THE END OF THE LECTURE. 20 00:00:48,504 --> 00:00:50,139 SO IT IS MY PLEASURE TO 21 00:00:50,139 --> 00:00:53,443 INTRODUCE OUR SPEAKER TODAY, DR. 22 00:00:53,443 --> 00:00:56,079 BRAD AIMONE, WHO I HAVE ACTUALLY 23 00:00:56,079 --> 00:00:57,680 KNOWN FOR UP TO A DECADE. WE 24 00:00:57,680 --> 00:00:59,849 JUST DISCOVERED THIS OVER LUNCH. 25 00:00:59,849 --> 00:01:02,318 I REALLY GOT TO KNOW BRAD IN 26 00:01:02,318 --> 00:01:03,820 2020 AT MY PREVIOUS JOB AS A 27 00:01:03,820 --> 00:01:06,022 PROGRAM DIRECTOR AT THE NATIONAL 28 00:01:06,022 --> 00:01:08,691 SCIENCE FOUNDATION. I STARTED A 29 00:01:08,691 --> 00:01:10,894 PROGRAM EMERGING FRONTIERS AN 30 00:01:10,894 --> 00:01:12,128 RESEARCH INNOVATION PROGRAM ON 31 00:01:12,128 --> 00:01:15,632 BRAIN IRSPIRED DYNAMICS FOR 32 00:01:15,632 --> 00:01:16,499 INTERRELATED CIRCUIT AND 33 00:01:16,499 --> 00:01:18,401 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND BRAD 34 00:01:18,401 --> 00:01:20,203 WAS GENEROUS WITH WITH HIS 35 00:01:20,203 --> 00:01:23,039 PERSPECTIVE AND KNOWLEDGE. HE IS 36 00:01:23,039 --> 00:01:26,342 A DISTINGUISHED FELLOW AT SANDIA 37 00:01:26,342 --> 00:01:27,143 NATIONAL LAB, HE LED SEVERAL 38 00:01:27,143 --> 00:01:29,712 RESEARCH PROJECTS THAT LEVERAGES 39 00:01:29,712 --> 00:01:31,147 COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE TO 40 00:01:31,147 --> 00:01:32,916 ADVANCE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE. 41 00:01:32,916 --> 00:01:35,551 AND IN USING NEUROMORPHIC 42 00:01:35,551 --> 00:01:38,554 COMPUTING PLATFORMS FOR FUTURE 43 00:01:38,554 --> 00:01:39,389 ENERGY EFFICIENT SCIENTIFIC 44 00:01:39,389 --> 00:01:44,327 COMPUTING. HE RECENTLY LED A 45 00:01:44,327 --> 00:01:45,061 MULTI-INSTITUTION DEPARTMENT OF 46 00:01:45,061 --> 00:01:48,731 ENERGY OFFICE OF SCIENCE 47 00:01:48,731 --> 00:01:50,800 MICROELECTRONICS CO-DESIGN 48 00:01:50,800 --> 00:01:53,469 PROJECT ON NOVEL PROBABILISTIC 49 00:01:53,469 --> 00:01:54,804 NEUROMORPHIC COMPUTING CALLED 50 00:01:54,804 --> 00:01:58,408 COIN FLIPSS. IN 2023 BRAD WAS 51 00:01:58,408 --> 00:02:00,310 RECIPIENT OF THE THE PRESTIGIOUS 52 00:02:00,310 --> 00:02:01,444 PRIZE FOR NEUROMORPHIC 53 00:02:01,444 --> 00:02:03,913 ENGINEERING. AND HE WAS ALSO A 54 00:02:03,913 --> 00:02:05,748 NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING 55 00:02:05,748 --> 00:02:09,252 IN THIS FRONTIERS OF ENGINEERING 56 00:02:09,252 --> 00:02:11,287 INVITEE SINCE 2017. BEFORE 57 00:02:11,287 --> 00:02:13,823 JOINING THE DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 58 00:02:13,823 --> 00:02:16,259 BRAD STUDIED WITH RUSTY GAUGE AT 59 00:02:16,259 --> 00:02:19,162 THE SALK INSTITUTE AS 60 00:02:19,162 --> 00:02:20,697 COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE IN 61 00:02:20,697 --> 00:02:22,365 NEUROGENESIS. YOU WILL HEAR A 62 00:02:22,365 --> 00:02:24,133 LITTLE BIT OF THAT RESEARCH 63 00:02:24,133 --> 00:02:25,668 TODAY AND E HE WILL TELL HOW 64 00:02:25,668 --> 00:02:28,171 NEUROMORPHIC COMPUTING CAN HELP 65 00:02:28,171 --> 00:02:31,708 US UNDERSTAND THE BRAIN. BRAD. 66 00:02:31,708 --> 00:02:32,275 [APPLAUSE] 67 00:02:32,275 --> 00:02:34,344 >> LET'S WELL COP OUR SPEAKER. 68 00:02:34,344 --> 00:02:37,146 -- WELCOME OUR SPEAKER. 69 00:02:37,146 --> 00:02:40,316 >> THANK YOU, GRACE. THANK YOU, 70 00:02:40,316 --> 00:02:42,118 EVERYONE FOR THIS AMAZING 71 00:02:42,118 --> 00:02:43,753 OPPORTUNITY TO COME HERE AND 72 00:02:43,753 --> 00:02:46,856 SPEAK WITH YOU TODAY, I HAVE 73 00:02:46,856 --> 00:02:48,858 BEEN -- IT IS QUITE AN HONOR 74 00:02:48,858 --> 00:02:51,127 LOOKING AT THE PAST PRESENTERS 75 00:02:51,127 --> 00:02:53,029 OF THIS LECTURE SERIES AND I 76 00:02:53,029 --> 00:02:54,397 THINK IT IS -- I THINK IT IS AN 77 00:02:54,397 --> 00:02:56,599 EXCITING TIME TO BE ABLE TO COME 78 00:02:56,599 --> 00:02:57,300 AND SHARE SOME OF THE THINGS 79 00:02:57,300 --> 00:03:00,603 THAT ARE GOING ON IN MY FIELD, 80 00:03:00,603 --> 00:03:02,538 NEUROMORPHIC COMPUTING PEELED, 81 00:03:02,538 --> 00:03:05,274 WHICH IS A NEW FIELD FOR ME, AS 82 00:03:05,274 --> 00:03:07,176 GRACE MENTIONED, MY ORIGINAL 83 00:03:07,176 --> 00:03:10,179 WORK AS A NEUROSCIENTIST WAS 84 00:03:10,179 --> 00:03:13,049 LOOKING AT ADULT NEUROGENESIS, I 85 00:03:13,049 --> 00:03:14,817 WILL TELL ABOUT TO START. OVER 86 00:03:14,817 --> 00:03:18,354 THE LAST DECADE FOCUSED ON 87 00:03:18,354 --> 00:03:21,457 COMPUTING SIDE. SOMEWHAT 88 00:03:21,457 --> 00:03:23,426 SURPRISINGLY NEUROMORPHIC 89 00:03:23,426 --> 00:03:25,461 COMPUTING HASN'T HAD A LOT TO DO 90 00:03:25,461 --> 00:03:26,729 WITH NEUROSCIENCE HISTORICALLY 91 00:03:26,729 --> 00:03:28,831 BUT IT IS CHANGING AND WE HAVE A 92 00:03:28,831 --> 00:03:30,933 REAL OPPORTUNITY IF WE TAKE -- 93 00:03:30,933 --> 00:03:32,402 CHOOSE TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF IT 94 00:03:32,402 --> 00:03:33,736 TO BRING THESE FIELDS CLOSERRING 95 00:03:33,736 --> 00:03:36,539 TO AND HELP US GAIN NEW INSIGHT 96 00:03:36,539 --> 00:03:39,008 HOUSE THE BRAIN WORKS. SO I'M 97 00:03:39,008 --> 00:03:44,013 GOING TO START WITH A -- KIND OF 98 00:03:44,013 --> 00:03:45,348 METAPHOR IF YOU WILL OR 99 00:03:45,348 --> 00:03:46,816 INSPIRATION IF YOU WILL. AND 100 00:03:46,816 --> 00:03:48,484 LOOKING AT HOW MODELING AND 101 00:03:48,484 --> 00:03:50,019 SIMULATION HAS HAD A TREMENDOUS 102 00:03:50,019 --> 00:03:52,055 IMPACT IN OUR SOCIETY AS A 103 00:03:52,055 --> 00:03:55,792 WHOLE. THIS IS HURRICANE MILTON 104 00:03:55,792 --> 00:03:57,693 THAT IF YOU ARE FAMILIAR WITH 105 00:03:57,693 --> 00:03:59,796 THE NEWS MOST PEOPLE ARE, HIT 106 00:03:59,796 --> 00:04:03,099 TAMPA A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO. AND 107 00:04:03,099 --> 00:04:04,434 WHAT IS AMAZING ABOUT THIS IS, 108 00:04:04,434 --> 00:04:08,371 WE ARE ALL FAMILIAR WITH THESE 109 00:04:08,371 --> 00:04:10,706 CONES OF UNCERTAINTY WHERE THE 110 00:04:10,706 --> 00:04:11,741 STORM TRACKS COME AND THIS IS 111 00:04:11,741 --> 00:04:13,276 CASE THE AVERAGE PERSON IS 112 00:04:13,276 --> 00:04:15,011 SEEING MODELING SIMULATION 113 00:04:15,011 --> 00:04:16,112 IMPACT THEIR LIVES IN REAL TIME. 114 00:04:16,112 --> 00:04:18,681 DAY TO DAY WE GET A NEW FORECAST 115 00:04:18,681 --> 00:04:20,683 WHERE THE STORM MAY GO. THIS IS 116 00:04:20,683 --> 00:04:22,051 AN I BELIEVE USUAL ONE, WENTS 117 00:04:22,051 --> 00:04:23,920 FROM WEST TO EAST, NOT WHAT 118 00:04:23,920 --> 00:04:25,388 HURRICANE DOS IN THAT PART OF 119 00:04:25,388 --> 00:04:29,325 THE COUNTRY. BUT WHAT IS EVEN 120 00:04:29,325 --> 00:04:31,627 MORE AMAZING, THIS STORM DID 121 00:04:31,627 --> 00:04:33,096 ALMOST EXACTLY WHAT THE MODELS 122 00:04:33,096 --> 00:04:34,997 PREDICTED. THAT DOESN'T ALWAYS 123 00:04:34,997 --> 00:04:36,232 HAPPEN BUT IT IS HAPPENING MORE 124 00:04:36,232 --> 00:04:37,467 AND MORE OFTEN BECAUSE OUR 125 00:04:37,467 --> 00:04:39,435 ABILITY TO SIMULATE THESE 126 00:04:39,435 --> 00:04:44,073 SYSTEMS IS COMPLEX WEATHER, INCS 127 00:04:44,073 --> 00:04:45,441 GOTTEN BETTER AND BETTER EVERY 128 00:04:45,441 --> 00:04:47,043 YEAR AND PART OF THE REASON WHY 129 00:04:47,043 --> 00:04:51,581 IS IF YOU LOOK AT THESE SORT OF 130 00:04:51,581 --> 00:04:53,583 SUPERCOMPUTERS THAT NOAA HAS, IN 131 00:04:53,583 --> 00:04:57,053 VIRGINIA OR ARIZONA, THESE LARGE 132 00:04:57,053 --> 00:04:58,087 SCALE GIANT HIGH PERFORMANCE 133 00:04:58,087 --> 00:05:00,490 COMPUTING SYSTEMS, IN EFFECT CAN 134 00:05:00,490 --> 00:05:03,926 BE DEPLOYED SAVING UNTOLD NUMBER 135 00:05:03,926 --> 00:05:07,163 OF LIVES AND TREMENDOUS ECONOMIC 136 00:05:07,163 --> 00:05:08,831 IMPACT. THE QUESTION, WHY ARE WE 137 00:05:08,831 --> 00:05:11,267 NOT ABLE TO DO THIS TODAY FOR 138 00:05:11,267 --> 00:05:12,935 MENTAL HEALTH AND NEUROLOGICAL 139 00:05:12,935 --> 00:05:14,203 DISORDERS? THIS IS THE 140 00:05:14,203 --> 00:05:15,671 CHALLENGE, MOTIVATING THOUGHT. 141 00:05:15,671 --> 00:05:17,039 WOULDN'T IT BE NICE IF WE COULD 142 00:05:17,039 --> 00:05:18,908 MAKE THAT SAME PREDICTION? 143 00:05:18,908 --> 00:05:20,510 OTHERS ARE THINKING ABOUT THIS 144 00:05:20,510 --> 00:05:23,079 AS WELL. BUT I WANT TO COME AT 145 00:05:23,079 --> 00:05:24,647 IT FROM A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE. 146 00:05:24,647 --> 00:05:27,717 WHICH REALLY IS LOOKING FROM THE 147 00:05:27,717 --> 00:05:30,887 BOTTOM UP. AS SOMEONE WHO 148 00:05:30,887 --> 00:05:34,190 MODELED BIOLOGICAL PROCESS, KIND 149 00:05:34,190 --> 00:05:36,425 OF HIGH LEVEL GRANULARITY, AT 150 00:05:36,425 --> 00:05:39,095 LEAST TIME, HOW DO WE GO FROM 151 00:05:39,095 --> 00:05:40,563 THIS LEVEL UNDERSTANDING INTO 152 00:05:40,563 --> 00:05:42,165 THIS SORT OF SYSTEM 153 00:05:42,165 --> 00:05:43,933 UNDERSTANDING OF HOW THE BRAIN 154 00:05:43,933 --> 00:05:46,135 WORKS AND HOW DISEASES MAY BE 155 00:05:46,135 --> 00:05:51,340 UNDERSTOOD AND BE TREATED? IF WE 156 00:05:51,340 --> 00:05:52,909 WANT TO START BUILDING THESE 157 00:05:52,909 --> 00:05:58,314 SORT OF HIGH FIDELITY MODELS OF 158 00:05:58,314 --> 00:06:09,091 NEURO-PROCESSES NEURAL MY WORK S 159 00:06:18,234 --> 00:06:21,237 WELL AS BROADER COMMUNITY 160 00:06:21,237 --> 00:06:22,838 STARTED HELP SHAPE A PATH 161 00:06:22,838 --> 00:06:24,507 FORWARD HOW WE ARE GOING TO 162 00:06:24,507 --> 00:06:25,975 POTENTIALLY WHAT WE NEED TO DO 163 00:06:25,975 --> 00:06:29,612 TO GET THERE. THEN I WANT TO 164 00:06:29,612 --> 00:06:31,080 TALK ABOUT THIS FIELD OF 165 00:06:31,080 --> 00:06:32,548 NEUROMORPHIC COMPUTING WHICH IS 166 00:06:32,548 --> 00:06:34,116 A REALLY A NEW THING I IMAGINE 167 00:06:34,116 --> 00:06:36,552 FOR MANY OF YOU PROBABLY A NEW 168 00:06:36,552 --> 00:06:37,687 CONCEPT, IT IS SOMETHING THAT IS 169 00:06:37,687 --> 00:06:39,589 REALLY AN EXCITING AREA THAT'S 170 00:06:39,589 --> 00:06:40,856 REALLY EMERGING ON THE SCENE 171 00:06:40,856 --> 00:06:44,360 RIGHT NOW. AND TALK ABOUT HOW 172 00:06:44,360 --> 00:06:47,029 THAT MAY ACTUALLY HAVE REAL 173 00:06:47,029 --> 00:06:49,298 UNPREDICTED INSIGHTS HOW NEURAL 174 00:06:49,298 --> 00:06:51,767 COMPUTATION MAY BE OCCURRING. SO 175 00:06:51,767 --> 00:06:54,870 TO START, I WANT TO GO BACK TO 176 00:06:54,870 --> 00:06:58,207 ADULT NEUROGENESIS, THIS IS A 177 00:06:58,207 --> 00:07:00,176 PROCESS THAT IS QUITE I STILL 178 00:07:00,176 --> 00:07:01,877 FIND VERY EXCITING THE IDEA THAT 179 00:07:01,877 --> 00:07:03,813 RIGHT NOW ALL OF US IN THIS ROOM 180 00:07:03,813 --> 00:07:07,984 ALL OF US LISTENING ONLINE, ARE 181 00:07:07,984 --> 00:07:09,685 EXPERIENCING THE ADDITION OF NEW 182 00:07:09,685 --> 00:07:11,587 NEURONS INTO OUR HIPPOCAMPUS NOT 183 00:07:11,587 --> 00:07:13,389 A TON OF THEM MIND YOU BUT THEY 184 00:07:13,389 --> 00:07:16,692 ARE HAPPENING. DEVELOPMENT DOES 185 00:07:16,692 --> 00:07:18,894 NOT END WHEN YOU ARE FIVE YEARS 186 00:07:18,894 --> 00:07:21,330 OLD THE WAY WE WERE TAUGHT 187 00:07:21,330 --> 00:07:22,565 GROWING UP. THERE ARE NEW 188 00:07:22,565 --> 00:07:25,368 NEURONS IN THE ADULT BRAIN. THIS 189 00:07:25,368 --> 00:07:28,070 IS A LOCALIZED PROCESS, AS YOU 190 00:07:28,070 --> 00:07:30,506 SEE HERE, KIND OF HIGHLIGHTED IN 191 00:07:30,506 --> 00:07:31,874 THE DENTIGEROUS OF THE 192 00:07:31,874 --> 00:07:33,876 HIPPOCAMPUS. THE BOTTOM RIGHT 193 00:07:33,876 --> 00:07:35,878 IS AN IMAGE FROM (INDISCERNIBLE) 194 00:07:35,878 --> 00:07:38,014 A POST DOC WHEN I WAS A GRAD 195 00:07:38,014 --> 00:07:40,249 STUDENT WHO TOOK THESE BEAUTIFUL 196 00:07:40,249 --> 00:07:43,219 PICTURES OF THESE GFP POSITIVE 197 00:07:43,219 --> 00:07:44,920 NEURONS, THE GREEN CELLS ARE THE 198 00:07:44,920 --> 00:07:46,489 NEWBORN CELLS, ABOUT A MONTH OLD 199 00:07:46,489 --> 00:07:49,191 IN A MOUSE. AND IT IS 200 00:07:49,191 --> 00:07:51,727 PARTICULARLY A SMALL POPULATION 201 00:07:51,727 --> 00:07:53,296 OF GRANULE CELLS WHICH ARE THE 202 00:07:53,296 --> 00:07:54,664 DOMINANT CELL POPULATION IN THE 203 00:07:54,664 --> 00:07:56,565 DEN DAY WHICH ARE THE PINK CELLS 204 00:07:56,565 --> 00:07:59,035 YOU SEE THERE. SO AS I 205 00:07:59,035 --> 00:07:59,802 MENTIONED, THIS WAS KIND OF ONE 206 00:07:59,802 --> 00:08:01,170 OF THESE PEOPLE LOVE TO USE THIS 207 00:08:01,170 --> 00:08:03,606 AS AN EXAMPLE, ONE ICE DOGMAS 208 00:08:03,606 --> 00:08:06,409 THAT WAS OVERTURNED WE KNOW 209 00:08:06,409 --> 00:08:07,610 NEUROGENESIS DOES EXIST THOUGH 210 00:08:07,610 --> 00:08:11,981 WE WERE TOLD IT DOES NOT. BUT IT 211 00:08:11,981 --> 00:08:14,083 IS NOT A TON OF CELLS AS THEY 212 00:08:14,083 --> 00:08:16,819 SAID. HUMANS MITT IT MAY BE ANY 213 00:08:16,819 --> 00:08:18,788 GIVEN TIME HAVING A FEW THOUSAND 214 00:08:18,788 --> 00:08:21,257 NEURONS IMMATURE CRITICAL STATE. 215 00:08:21,257 --> 00:08:22,491 STILL TO BE DETERMINED. THIS IS 216 00:08:22,491 --> 00:08:25,328 VERY DIFFICULT TO MEASURE IN 217 00:08:25,328 --> 00:08:27,763 HUMANS FOR OBVIOUS REASONS. WE 218 00:08:27,763 --> 00:08:29,231 DO KNOW THOUGH IN RODENT THIS IS 219 00:08:29,231 --> 00:08:30,933 HAS A REAL IMPACT ON MEMORY 220 00:08:30,933 --> 00:08:33,269 FORMATION. IT SEEMS TO BE 221 00:08:33,269 --> 00:08:37,506 CLEARLY IMPORTANT FOR COGNITION. 222 00:08:37,506 --> 00:08:40,042 AND WE ALSO KNOW IT IS HIGHLY 223 00:08:40,042 --> 00:08:43,279 CORRELATED WITH A LOT OF THINGS 224 00:08:43,279 --> 00:08:45,181 THAT ARE CLINICALLY HAVE A LOT 225 00:08:45,181 --> 00:08:46,982 OF INTEREST, THINGS LIKE 226 00:08:46,982 --> 00:08:49,652 EPILEPSY, DEPRESSION, STRESS, 227 00:08:49,652 --> 00:08:51,754 AGING, ALL OF THOSE SEEM TO HAVE 228 00:08:51,754 --> 00:08:55,291 SOME INTERACTION WITH 229 00:08:55,291 --> 00:08:56,659 NEUROGENESIS AND AT THE SAME 230 00:08:56,659 --> 00:08:58,761 TIME SOME THINGS LIKE SSRIs 231 00:08:58,761 --> 00:09:09,305 APPEAR THE INTERACT AND TO TALK 232 00:09:18,214 --> 00:09:20,616 ABOUT A LITTLE BIT IS THE 233 00:09:20,616 --> 00:09:24,954 COMPUTATIONAL IMPACT OF THIS. 234 00:09:24,954 --> 00:09:25,821 WHAT IS CONVENIENT ABOUT THIS 235 00:09:25,821 --> 00:09:27,656 PROCESS IS THAT THIS -- WE WERE 236 00:09:27,656 --> 00:09:30,326 ADDING NEW -- APPARENTLY THE 237 00:09:30,326 --> 00:09:31,160 ADDITIONAL NEURONS IS OCCURRING 238 00:09:31,160 --> 00:09:32,828 IN A BRAIN REGION RELATIVELY 239 00:09:32,828 --> 00:09:34,063 WELL STUDIED FROM A 240 00:09:34,063 --> 00:09:36,499 COMPUTATIONAL POINT OF VIEW. 241 00:09:36,499 --> 00:09:38,701 DENTIGEROUS IS WHERE LTP WAS 242 00:09:38,701 --> 00:09:41,303 ORIGINALLY SEEN IN VIVO IN 243 00:09:41,303 --> 00:09:43,806 MAMMALS. WHAT WE -- WHAT PEOPLE 244 00:09:43,806 --> 00:09:45,374 WITHIN OBSERVING WHILE I WAS A 245 00:09:45,374 --> 00:09:46,842 GRAD STUDENT A LOT OF THE FIELD 246 00:09:46,842 --> 00:09:48,344 WAS RESONATING AROUND THIS IDEA 247 00:09:48,344 --> 00:09:50,012 YOU SEE ON THE LEFT HERE, THAT 248 00:09:50,012 --> 00:09:51,380 THESE KNEW NEURONS AS THEY COME 249 00:09:51,380 --> 00:09:52,681 IN -- NEW NEURONS AS THEY COME 250 00:09:52,681 --> 00:09:54,383 IN OVER THE COURSE OF A MOUSE 251 00:09:54,383 --> 00:09:55,818 MULTIPLE WEEKS OF DEVELOPMENT, 252 00:09:55,818 --> 00:09:57,987 THAT THEY ARE -- THEY GO THROUGH 253 00:09:57,987 --> 00:09:59,955 THAT'S PERIODS OF INCREASED 254 00:09:59,955 --> 00:10:00,990 EXCITABILITY AND INCREASE 255 00:10:00,990 --> 00:10:03,893 ABILITY TO LEARN. THEY START OFF 256 00:10:03,893 --> 00:10:04,927 QUIET, THEIR STEM CELLS NOT 257 00:10:04,927 --> 00:10:08,030 WIRED INTO ANYTHING, BECOME 258 00:10:08,030 --> 00:10:10,032 HYPERACTIVE, THEY ARE LIKE 259 00:10:10,032 --> 00:10:11,300 HYPERACTIVE LITTLE CHILDREN AS 260 00:10:11,300 --> 00:10:12,334 YOU SEE ON THE VIDEO ON THE 261 00:10:12,334 --> 00:10:14,336 RIGHT. AND MATURE CELLS 262 00:10:14,336 --> 00:10:16,238 EVENTUALLY MATURE AND GET QUIET 263 00:10:16,238 --> 00:10:17,373 AND ONLY RESPOND TO WHAT THEY 264 00:10:17,373 --> 00:10:20,276 ARE SUPPOSED TO. SO THIS SORT OF 265 00:10:20,276 --> 00:10:23,245 MODEL OF COMPUTATION WAS 266 00:10:23,245 --> 00:10:24,947 APPEALING, IT WAS ATTRACTIVE 267 00:10:24,947 --> 00:10:26,816 BECAUSE WHAT WE HAVE IS A CASE 268 00:10:26,816 --> 00:10:29,051 WHERE THERE IS A CLASSIC CODING 269 00:10:29,051 --> 00:10:32,121 SCHEME IN THE DENTIGEROUS WHERE 270 00:10:32,121 --> 00:10:33,255 EACH NEURON RESPONDS IN EFFECT 271 00:10:33,255 --> 00:10:35,491 LIKE ALMOST LIKE A GRANDMOTHER 272 00:10:35,491 --> 00:10:37,493 CELL, NOT QUITE A GRANDMOTHER 273 00:10:37,493 --> 00:10:39,628 CELL BUT RESPONDS HIGHLY 274 00:10:39,628 --> 00:10:42,598 SELECTIVELY TO MALL SET OF 275 00:10:42,598 --> 00:10:43,833 THINGS BUT YOUNG NEURONS 276 00:10:43,833 --> 00:10:45,868 TRANSIENT PERIOD OF TIME ARE 277 00:10:45,868 --> 00:10:46,902 RECEPTIVE TO NEW THINGS AND IN 278 00:10:46,902 --> 00:10:48,237 THAT PROCESS LEARN TO RESPOND TO 279 00:10:48,237 --> 00:10:51,207 THOSE LATER. BASICALLY SAMPLED 280 00:10:51,207 --> 00:10:53,275 LOTS OF POSSIBILITIES AND BECOME 281 00:10:53,275 --> 00:10:56,345 EXPERT IN ONE OR TWO THINGS. 282 00:10:56,345 --> 00:10:57,847 THIS WAS COMPELLING AND 283 00:10:57,847 --> 00:10:59,982 INTERESTING FROM COMPUTATIONAL 284 00:10:59,982 --> 00:11:00,950 POINT OF VIEW. IT MAKES YOU 285 00:11:00,950 --> 00:11:02,985 START THINKING WHAT DOES IT MEAN 286 00:11:02,985 --> 00:11:06,088 TO BUILD A COMPUTING SYSTEM AN 287 00:11:06,088 --> 00:11:07,423 ALGORITHM IF YOU WILL, THIS IS 288 00:11:07,423 --> 00:11:11,527 BEFORE AI TOOK OFF. SO WHEN WE 289 00:11:11,527 --> 00:11:13,963 STARTED THINKING WHAT THIS 290 00:11:13,963 --> 00:11:15,598 MEANT, I WON'T GO INTO THE 291 00:11:15,598 --> 00:11:17,366 MODELING ITSELF IN DEPTH BUT THE 292 00:11:17,366 --> 00:11:20,469 CONCLUSION WE HAD WAS THAT 293 00:11:20,469 --> 00:11:21,937 DENTIGEROUS HAS BEEN KNOWN AND 294 00:11:21,937 --> 00:11:24,073 BELIEVED FOR MANY YEARS TO BE 295 00:11:24,073 --> 00:11:25,941 IMPORTANT PATTERN SEPARATION THE 296 00:11:25,941 --> 00:11:28,177 ABILITY TO DISCRIMINATE BETWEEN 297 00:11:28,177 --> 00:11:29,078 RELATIVELY SIMILAR THINGS, YOU 298 00:11:29,078 --> 00:11:31,113 CAN SEE THIS FROM ANIMAL 299 00:11:31,113 --> 00:11:33,382 BEHAVIOR SIDE WHERE ANIMAL 300 00:11:33,382 --> 00:11:35,684 CONTEXT FEAR CONDITIONING 301 00:11:35,684 --> 00:11:37,753 DISCRIMINATE BETWEEN TWO SIMILAR 302 00:11:37,753 --> 00:11:39,021 ENVIRONMENTS. DIFFERENT 303 00:11:39,021 --> 00:11:40,723 POPULATIONS OF NEURONS RESPONDS 304 00:11:40,723 --> 00:11:46,996 TO SIMILAR INPUTS, SO FORTH. 305 00:11:46,996 --> 00:11:49,365 BUT WHAT WAS COMPLICATED STILL, 306 00:11:49,365 --> 00:11:51,467 IF THE DENTY GYRUS IS GOING TO 307 00:11:51,467 --> 00:11:52,268 PATTERN SEPARATION BY 308 00:11:52,268 --> 00:11:53,569 CONSTRUCTION AND ANATOMICAL 309 00:11:53,569 --> 00:11:54,703 REASONS TO THINK THAT BE THE 310 00:11:54,703 --> 00:11:57,606 CASE, WHY WOULD YOU NEED TO HAVE 311 00:11:57,606 --> 00:11:59,074 THIS COMPLICATED PROCESS OF 312 00:11:59,074 --> 00:12:01,844 NEUROGENESIS TO DO THAT? YOU 313 00:12:01,844 --> 00:12:03,512 DON'T NEED NEUROGENESIS TO 314 00:12:03,512 --> 00:12:06,482 PATTERN SEPARA SEPARATE. THEN 315 00:12:06,482 --> 00:12:07,650 ESPECIALLY GIVEN THE REST OF THE 316 00:12:07,650 --> 00:12:09,451 BRAIN SHUT OFF NEUROGENESIS. THE 317 00:12:09,451 --> 00:12:11,287 VAST MAJORITY OF THE BRAIN DOES 318 00:12:11,287 --> 00:12:13,088 NOT HAVE NEURONS COMING IN REAL 319 00:12:13,088 --> 00:12:15,090 LIFE SO CLEARLY SOMETHING MORE 320 00:12:15,090 --> 00:12:16,792 HAS TO BE HAPPENING. BUT WE JUST 321 00:12:16,792 --> 00:12:20,029 DIDN'T HAVE THE TOOLS TO 322 00:12:20,029 --> 00:12:23,766 UNDERSTAND IT. SO REALLY, THE 323 00:12:23,766 --> 00:12:26,635 CHALLENGE THAT I HAD AT THE 324 00:12:26,635 --> 00:12:28,304 TIME, THIS WAS I WAS FINISHING 325 00:12:28,304 --> 00:12:30,205 MY Ph.D., SOMETIMES POST DOC 326 00:12:30,205 --> 00:12:32,474 AND TRYING TO UNDERSTAND IF I 327 00:12:32,474 --> 00:12:34,476 HAD THIS CONCEPTUAL MODEL OF 328 00:12:34,476 --> 00:12:35,744 WHAT NEW NEURONS MAYBE DOING, I 329 00:12:35,744 --> 00:12:37,446 WANT TO GET TO THE -- I WANT TO 330 00:12:37,446 --> 00:12:41,050 -- WE ARE IN IT TO TREAT 331 00:12:41,050 --> 00:12:42,184 DISEASES AND IMPROVE COGNITION 332 00:12:42,184 --> 00:12:45,421 WITH AGING AND OVERCOME EFFECTS 333 00:12:45,421 --> 00:12:46,455 OF MENTAL HEALTH ON COGNITION 334 00:12:46,455 --> 00:12:48,557 AND SO FORTH. WE KNOW 335 00:12:48,557 --> 00:12:49,925 NEUROGENESIS IS LIKELY INVOLVED 336 00:12:49,925 --> 00:12:51,126 BUT HOW DO WE CONNECT THOSE 337 00:12:51,126 --> 00:12:54,330 DOTS? WE NEED TO EXPAND IN SOME 338 00:12:54,330 --> 00:12:55,998 DIRECTION. AND THE TWO OBVIOUS 339 00:12:55,998 --> 00:12:58,100 WAYS LOOKING AT IT FROM MY 340 00:12:58,100 --> 00:13:00,469 PERSPECTIVE AS A COMPUTATIONAL 341 00:13:00,469 --> 00:13:01,470 PERSON, WAS MAYBE IT IS A 342 00:13:01,470 --> 00:13:03,839 CHALLENGE WITH MODELING, THAT WE 343 00:13:03,839 --> 00:13:05,207 SIMPLY DON'T HAVE A BIG ENOUGH 344 00:13:05,207 --> 00:13:08,143 MODEL. WE DON'T HAVE A 345 00:13:08,143 --> 00:13:10,312 REALISTIC SIZE MODEL, AT THIS 346 00:13:10,312 --> 00:13:12,881 TIME THIS IS BEFORE AI BEFORE 347 00:13:12,881 --> 00:13:16,018 GPUs THAT RUN BILLIONS OF 348 00:13:16,018 --> 00:13:17,620 NEURONS MODELS. MAYBE I NEED A 349 00:13:17,620 --> 00:13:20,222 BIGGER MODEL. BUT EVEN IF YOU 350 00:13:20,222 --> 00:13:21,924 LOOK AT THIS, IT IS A LOT OF 351 00:13:21,924 --> 00:13:23,392 NEURONS IN OUR BRAINS, EVEN 352 00:13:23,392 --> 00:13:24,893 COMPARED TO TODAY'S COMPUTING 353 00:13:24,893 --> 00:13:26,228 CAPABILITIES, WE HAVE A LOOT OF 354 00:13:26,228 --> 00:13:28,697 SYNAPSES, A LOT OF -- LOT OF 355 00:13:28,697 --> 00:13:30,065 SYNAPSES, LOT OF TIMES MILLION 356 00:13:30,065 --> 00:13:31,967 SECONDS IN A MONTH. THEN THERE'S 357 00:13:31,967 --> 00:13:33,736 THE OTHER -- MILLISECONDS. THE 358 00:13:33,736 --> 00:13:36,271 OTHER ISSUE ON THE RIGHT T 359 00:13:36,271 --> 00:13:38,007 BIOLOGICAL COMPLEXITY IS PREMEN 360 00:13:38,007 --> 00:13:39,241 DOUSE. SO MUCH WE DON'T KNOW. 361 00:13:39,241 --> 00:13:41,143 ONE EXAMPLE OF WHAT WE DIDN'T 362 00:13:41,143 --> 00:13:42,077 KNOW THAT WILL BE IMPORTANT IF 363 00:13:42,077 --> 00:13:44,413 YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT 364 00:13:44,413 --> 00:13:46,649 NEUROLOGICAL CONDITIONS, MENTAL 365 00:13:46,649 --> 00:13:50,419 HEALTH IS THAT IT IS NOT JUST 366 00:13:50,419 --> 00:13:51,887 GABA AND GLUTAMATE AND DONE, 367 00:13:51,887 --> 00:13:54,423 THERE IS A LOT OF IMMENSE 368 00:13:54,423 --> 00:13:55,791 COMPLEXITY AND NEUROMODULATORY 369 00:13:55,791 --> 00:13:56,492 SYSTEMS THAT IS REALLY 370 00:13:56,492 --> 00:13:58,594 IMPORTANT. SO I -- WHEN I WAS 371 00:13:58,594 --> 00:13:59,528 FIRST THINKING ABOUT WHERE I 372 00:13:59,528 --> 00:14:05,401 WANT TO GO AFTER MY TIME AT ECSD 373 00:14:05,401 --> 00:14:07,269 AND SALK I WAS MOTIVATED AND 374 00:14:07,269 --> 00:14:08,971 INSPIRED TO THINK WHAT CAN -- 375 00:14:08,971 --> 00:14:13,742 CAN WE START PUTTING THE 376 00:14:13,742 --> 00:14:17,913 COMPLEXITY OF DOPAMINE 377 00:14:17,913 --> 00:14:19,048 NOREPINEPHRINE, THESE MODULATORY 378 00:14:19,048 --> 00:14:20,315 SYSTEMS CRITICAL IN COGNITION 379 00:14:20,315 --> 00:14:22,418 AND AFFECT AND MOOD, THAT ARE 380 00:14:22,418 --> 00:14:27,222 OFTEN IMPLICATED IN DISORDERS. 381 00:14:27,222 --> 00:14:28,957 WE KNOW FROM ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY 382 00:14:28,957 --> 00:14:30,359 WORK THESE ARE IMPORTANT WHEN IT 383 00:14:30,359 --> 00:14:33,996 COMES TO THINGS LIKE BEHAVIOR OF 384 00:14:33,996 --> 00:14:35,731 GRANULE CELLS AND INNER NEURON 385 00:14:35,731 --> 00:14:40,436 POPULATIONS. ALONG WITH POST DOC 386 00:14:40,436 --> 00:14:41,904 (INAUDIBLE) IN RUSTY'S LAB AT 387 00:14:41,904 --> 00:14:45,374 TIME WHO LEFT AND WENT TO START 388 00:14:45,374 --> 00:14:46,942 POSITION ON CHINA, I DID SOME 389 00:14:46,942 --> 00:14:51,680 MODELING WORK WHERE WE PUT 390 00:14:51,680 --> 00:14:54,950 DOPAMINE, VERY ABSTRACT MODEL SO 391 00:14:54,950 --> 00:14:56,418 DETAILS ARE BASICALLY WHAT YOU 392 00:14:56,418 --> 00:14:58,520 SEE AT THE TOP OF THE CHART, 393 00:14:58,520 --> 00:15:00,422 SIMPLIFIED MODEL OF DOPAMINE 394 00:15:00,422 --> 00:15:02,057 BASED ON PHYSIOLOGY RESULT SHE 395 00:15:02,057 --> 00:15:03,826 WAS SEEING WHERE WE OBSERVE WHEN 396 00:15:03,826 --> 00:15:05,794 YOU PUT THIN TO THE PATTERN 397 00:15:05,794 --> 00:15:06,962 SEPARATION MODEL -- PUT THIS 398 00:15:06,962 --> 00:15:08,397 INTO THE PATTERN SEPARATION 399 00:15:08,397 --> 00:15:11,300 MODEL WE HAVE YOU SEE A TEMPORAL 400 00:15:11,300 --> 00:15:13,869 ASYNCHRONY HAPPENING. IF I HAVE 401 00:15:13,869 --> 00:15:15,304 A BEHAVIORAL MODEL, ADDING 402 00:15:15,304 --> 00:15:18,140 NEURONS IN THERE, AND THEN I HAD 403 00:15:18,140 --> 00:15:19,775 A DOPAMINE EVENT, THINGS THAT 404 00:15:19,775 --> 00:15:21,677 HAPPEN BEFORE THE DOPAMINE EVENT 405 00:15:21,677 --> 00:15:22,945 WERE ENCODED DIFFERENTLY THAN 406 00:15:22,945 --> 00:15:24,379 THE THINGS THAT HAPPENED AFTER 407 00:15:24,379 --> 00:15:26,949 THE DOPAMINE EVENT. IF YOU ARE 408 00:15:26,949 --> 00:15:29,952 FAMILIAR WITH AI AND SOME OF THE 409 00:15:29,952 --> 00:15:32,454 AI TECHNIQUES HAVE GONE IN 410 00:15:32,454 --> 00:15:33,589 RECENT YEARS THIS IS NOT 411 00:15:33,589 --> 00:15:35,190 DIFFERENT FROM REINFORCEMENT 412 00:15:35,190 --> 00:15:37,960 LEARNING WHICH IS DOPAMINE 413 00:15:37,960 --> 00:15:39,628 IMPLICATED IN, AND DIFFERENCE 414 00:15:39,628 --> 00:15:41,230 LEARNING. THESE ARE FAIRLY 415 00:15:41,230 --> 00:15:42,598 FUNDAMENTAL BUILDING BLOCKS OF 416 00:15:42,598 --> 00:15:48,403 AI. SO WE FURTHER WENT AND THIS 417 00:15:48,403 --> 00:15:52,141 WAS WORK YANG LINK'S LAB DID 418 00:15:52,141 --> 00:15:54,476 BEHAVIORAL EXPERIMENTS AN 419 00:15:54,476 --> 00:15:55,110 PHYSIOLOGY EXPERIMENT WHERE IS 420 00:15:55,110 --> 00:15:57,713 YOU GIVE A MOUSE CONDENSED MILK 421 00:15:57,713 --> 00:15:59,782 AND YOU CAN OBSERVE IN AFFECT 422 00:15:59,782 --> 00:16:01,917 AFTER DOPAMINE EVENT OR 423 00:16:01,917 --> 00:16:04,019 PRESUMABLY CONDENSED MILK 424 00:16:04,019 --> 00:16:05,587 EQUIVALENT OF DOPAMINE EVENT, 425 00:16:05,587 --> 00:16:07,322 INDUCES A REWARD RESPONSE, 426 00:16:07,322 --> 00:16:09,758 LEARNING IS SUPPRESSED. NOT ALL 427 00:16:09,758 --> 00:16:11,994 THAT DIFFERENT THAN WHAT MODEL 428 00:16:11,994 --> 00:16:14,830 SUGGEST. THEN THIS WENT IN 429 00:16:14,830 --> 00:16:15,764 CONTEXT FEAR CONDITIONING AND 430 00:16:15,764 --> 00:16:17,966 OTHER THINGS, NOT FOR SAKE OF 431 00:16:17,966 --> 00:16:20,135 TIME NOT SHOW THOSE RESULTS. I 432 00:16:20,135 --> 00:16:20,836 THINK THIS WAS EXCITING BECAUSE 433 00:16:20,836 --> 00:16:22,404 IT SHOWED THAT YES, THERE IS A 434 00:16:22,404 --> 00:16:23,972 REAL REASON TO INCLUDE THE 435 00:16:23,972 --> 00:16:25,774 COMPLEXITY AND MODULATORY 436 00:16:25,774 --> 00:16:28,377 SYSTEMS IN THESE MODELS. BUT THE 437 00:16:28,377 --> 00:16:32,581 PROBLEM IS, THIS IS ONE 438 00:16:32,581 --> 00:16:33,682 MODULATOR WITH A LOT OF WORK 439 00:16:33,682 --> 00:16:35,984 THAT WAS DONE BY NUMBER OF 440 00:16:35,984 --> 00:16:37,920 EXPERIMENTALISTS ON THIS PAPER, 441 00:16:37,920 --> 00:16:42,157 PNAS AT THE TIME. AND WE WERE 442 00:16:42,157 --> 00:16:45,594 ABLE TO NAIL DOWN ONE 443 00:16:45,594 --> 00:16:47,362 EXPERIMENT, ONE LITTLE MODEL 444 00:16:47,362 --> 00:16:48,831 RESULT AND IT IS LIKE THERE IS 445 00:16:48,831 --> 00:16:51,266 SO MUCH MORE. IT IS JUST -- THIS 446 00:16:51,266 --> 00:16:55,037 IS CHIPPING OFF A TINY BIT AND 447 00:16:55,037 --> 00:16:56,104 HOPING THAT WE HAVE TO DO THIS 448 00:16:56,104 --> 00:16:58,640 FOREVER. SO THAT WAS A LITTLE 449 00:16:58,640 --> 00:17:00,776 UNDERWHELMING. IT WAS EXCITING, 450 00:17:00,776 --> 00:17:03,412 I LOVE THE RESULT BUT IS THIS A 451 00:17:03,412 --> 00:17:05,314 PATH FORWARD TO TRANSMITTER BY 452 00:17:05,314 --> 00:17:06,648 TRANSMITTER CELL TYPE BY CELL 453 00:17:06,648 --> 00:17:08,083 TYPE CHIP AWAY AT WHAT IS GOING 454 00:17:08,083 --> 00:17:13,088 ON. AS WAY OF FRAMING THIS, MANY 455 00:17:13,088 --> 00:17:16,024 OF YOU ARE FAMILIAR WITH PAT 456 00:17:16,024 --> 00:17:17,459 CHURCHHILL AND TERRY 457 00:17:17,459 --> 00:17:19,161 (INDISCERNIBLE) HAD A BOOK IN 458 00:17:19,161 --> 00:17:20,996 1988, TEN YEARS AGO HAD A 459 00:17:20,996 --> 00:17:22,164 FOLLOW-UP PAPER LOOKING AT TIME 460 00:17:22,164 --> 00:17:24,800 SCALES OF EXPERIMENTAL 461 00:17:24,800 --> 00:17:25,834 MODALITIES SPATIAL SCALES AND 462 00:17:25,834 --> 00:17:27,603 THIS DIFFERS TREMENDOUSLY 463 00:17:27,603 --> 00:17:30,172 WHETHER DOING SINGLE SPIKES AND 464 00:17:30,172 --> 00:17:33,609 PHYSIOLOGY OR FMRI IMAGING. THIS 465 00:17:33,609 --> 00:17:35,844 SAME THING HAPPENS WITH 466 00:17:35,844 --> 00:17:38,146 PLASTICITY. NEUROGENESIS IS 467 00:17:38,146 --> 00:17:40,215 OCCURRING OF COURSE AS I 468 00:17:40,215 --> 00:17:43,318 MENTIONED WEEKS AND MONTHS 469 00:17:43,318 --> 00:17:44,353 SCALES, CIRCUIT SCALES WITH HOD 470 00:17:44,353 --> 00:17:45,621 LAY TORRS ARE DIFFERENT TIME 471 00:17:45,621 --> 00:17:47,923 SCALES. SO IN THE SENSE YOU 472 00:17:47,923 --> 00:17:50,259 START LOOKING AT THIS, THE TIME 473 00:17:50,259 --> 00:17:53,061 SCALES THE SPATIAL SCALES, THE 474 00:17:53,061 --> 00:17:54,363 COMPLEXITY SCALES, BECOMES A 475 00:17:54,363 --> 00:17:57,199 LITTLE TAUNTING. -- DAUNTING BUT 476 00:17:57,199 --> 00:17:58,567 WE HAVE GIANT COMPUTERS. 477 00:17:58,567 --> 00:18:02,337 SHOULDN'T THAT BE ENOUGH? SO FOR 478 00:18:02,337 --> 00:18:03,572 THIS REASON, LOOK AT THAT 479 00:18:03,572 --> 00:18:04,907 COMPLEXITY THINKING I'M NOT 480 00:18:04,907 --> 00:18:07,409 GOING TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM ONE 481 00:18:07,409 --> 00:18:09,611 SYSTEM AT A TIME, ESPECIALLY AS 482 00:18:09,611 --> 00:18:12,714 A MODELER. I LOVE WORKING WITH 483 00:18:12,714 --> 00:18:14,983 EXPERIMENTALISTS BUT THAT IS NOT 484 00:18:14,983 --> 00:18:15,851 NECESSARILY THE BEST WAY TO 485 00:18:15,851 --> 00:18:18,820 START A CAREER IS WHERE YOU ARE 486 00:18:18,820 --> 00:18:19,855 DEPENDENT UPON BUNCH OF PEOPLE 487 00:18:19,855 --> 00:18:22,357 TO GIVE YOU DATA. SO I WEPT TO 488 00:18:22,357 --> 00:18:24,259 SANDIA NATIONAL LABS. IF YOU 489 00:18:24,259 --> 00:18:26,094 ARE NOT FAMILIAR WITH DOE 490 00:18:26,094 --> 00:18:26,995 LABORATORIES THEY GENERALLY 491 00:18:26,995 --> 00:18:28,230 DON'T HAVE A LOT OF 492 00:18:28,230 --> 00:18:28,864 NEUROSCIENCE, THAT'S BEGINNING 493 00:18:28,864 --> 00:18:31,166 TO CHANGE. AT THE TIME THEY 494 00:18:31,166 --> 00:18:33,101 DIDN'T HAVE MUCH AT ALL. BUT 495 00:18:33,101 --> 00:18:35,771 THEY DO HAVE REALLY BIG 496 00:18:35,771 --> 00:18:37,673 COMPUTERS. IN FACT THE BIGGEST 497 00:18:37,673 --> 00:18:40,042 COMPUTERS IN THE WORLD RIGHT NOW 498 00:18:40,042 --> 00:18:42,711 ARE OAKRIDGE NATIONAL LAB AND 499 00:18:42,711 --> 00:18:44,746 ARGON NATIONAL LAB. WE ARE 500 00:18:44,746 --> 00:18:46,315 GETTING TO THE 18 BLOTCHES A T A 501 00:18:46,315 --> 00:18:49,785 FILE, SANDIA, THIS IS 13, 40 502 00:18:49,785 --> 00:18:52,321 YEARS AGO SANDIA HAD ONE OF THE 503 00:18:52,321 --> 00:18:53,855 BEGGEST SUPERCOMPUTERS AVAILABLE 504 00:18:53,855 --> 00:18:55,958 TO SANDIA STAFF TO RUN 505 00:18:55,958 --> 00:18:57,960 EXPERIMENTS ON. SO I WENT AND 506 00:18:57,960 --> 00:19:00,162 SAID LET'S GOES TO REALISTIC 507 00:19:00,162 --> 00:19:06,468 SCALE DE DENTIGEROUS SIMULATION, 508 00:19:06,468 --> 00:19:08,136 MAYBE TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM. I 509 00:19:08,136 --> 00:19:08,670 DIDN'T IT SEEMS TO ME THE 510 00:19:08,670 --> 00:19:10,105 ORIGINAL MODEL BUT GRANULE CELLS 511 00:19:10,105 --> 00:19:11,106 WITH INTERNAL CORTEX INPUTS, I 512 00:19:11,106 --> 00:19:13,141 SAID LET'S LOOK AT ALL THE 513 00:19:13,141 --> 00:19:13,809 DIFFERENT INTERNEURON 514 00:19:13,809 --> 00:19:15,410 POPULATIONS. THERE'S MANY MORE 515 00:19:15,410 --> 00:19:16,778 THAN THIS BUT THIS IS MORE THAN 516 00:19:16,778 --> 00:19:20,749 YOU SEE IN MOST MODELS. SIX 517 00:19:20,749 --> 00:19:22,684 DIFFERENT INNER NEURON 518 00:19:22,684 --> 00:19:24,886 POPULATIONS DIFFERENT TYPES OF 519 00:19:24,886 --> 00:19:26,822 CELLS, GRID CELLS AND NON-GRID 520 00:19:26,822 --> 00:19:28,757 CELL INPUTS AND LOOK AT 521 00:19:28,757 --> 00:19:31,493 SOPHISTICATED FUNCTION, PATTERN 522 00:19:31,493 --> 00:19:32,094 SEPARATION FUNCTION BEFORE AND 523 00:19:32,094 --> 00:19:34,896 ABILITY TO ENCODE INFORMATION. 524 00:19:34,896 --> 00:19:36,798 WHAT WE OBSERVED, I BELIEVE THE 525 00:19:36,798 --> 00:19:38,934 FIRST TIME WE SAW THIS HAS BEEN 526 00:19:38,934 --> 00:19:41,403 SHOWN INTUITIVELY MAKES SENSE, 527 00:19:41,403 --> 00:19:43,739 IS THAT THERE IS A REAL VALUE OF 528 00:19:43,739 --> 00:19:46,675 GOING TO LARGE SCALE. THIS IS 15 529 00:19:46,675 --> 00:19:49,311 YEARS AGO, 25,000 NEURON MODEL 530 00:19:49,311 --> 00:19:51,013 WAS STILL AT THE TIME ONE OF THE 531 00:19:51,013 --> 00:19:52,914 BIGGEST MODELS AROUND. BUT THAT 532 00:19:52,914 --> 00:19:55,884 IS ONLY 10% SIZE OF MOUSE 533 00:19:55,884 --> 00:19:57,786 DENTIGEROUS, FOR CONTEXT RAT -- 534 00:19:57,786 --> 00:19:59,688 MOUSE IS 300,000 CELLS WHICH YOU 535 00:19:59,688 --> 00:20:05,193 SEE TOP RIGHT, AND HUMAN IS 536 00:20:05,193 --> 00:20:07,662 ABOUT 10 MILLION CELLS. IF WE 537 00:20:07,662 --> 00:20:09,664 SCALE UP ON SUPERCOMPUTER AS WE 538 00:20:09,664 --> 00:20:12,134 INCREASE THE SIZE OF THE 539 00:20:12,134 --> 00:20:13,468 NETWORK, WE SEE ON THE BOTTOM 540 00:20:13,468 --> 00:20:15,203 RIGHT BASICALLY THE ACTIVITY OF 541 00:20:15,203 --> 00:20:18,707 THE OVERALL NETWORK DECREASES. 542 00:20:18,707 --> 00:20:20,008 THIS IS THERE ARE REAL REASONS 543 00:20:20,008 --> 00:20:22,244 FOR THIS, LOOK AT -- THERE IS A 544 00:20:22,244 --> 00:20:23,912 DIFFERENCE BETWEEN NEURON THAT 545 00:20:23,912 --> 00:20:26,181 HAS 10,000 SYNAPSES IN A NEURON 546 00:20:26,181 --> 00:20:28,283 THAT HAS 100 SYNAPSES OR A 547 00:20:28,283 --> 00:20:31,920 THOUSAND SYNAPSES. SCALING IS 548 00:20:31,920 --> 00:20:33,922 NOT LINEAR WHEN TALKING THINGS 549 00:20:33,922 --> 00:20:37,125 THAT ARE HIGHLY CONNECTED IN A 550 00:20:37,125 --> 00:20:38,693 COMPLEX GRAPH. A LOT OF MODELS 551 00:20:38,693 --> 00:20:41,063 THAT WE HAD, THIS KIND OF IS 552 00:20:41,063 --> 00:20:42,631 LIKE A WARNING SIGN, A LOT OF 553 00:20:42,631 --> 00:20:44,332 MODELS THAT LOOK AT BRAIN 554 00:20:44,332 --> 00:20:45,600 REGIONS AND SAY I HAVE A 555 00:20:45,600 --> 00:20:48,103 THOUSAND NEURON MODEL WHATEVER 556 00:20:48,103 --> 00:20:49,838 REGION, UNLESS YOUR REGION IS A 557 00:20:49,838 --> 00:20:55,177 THOUSAND NEURONS, LIKE A LOCUST 558 00:20:55,177 --> 00:20:57,345 AURELEUS MODEL, YOU ARE PROBABLY 559 00:20:57,345 --> 00:20:58,847 GETTING BIASED RESULTS BECAUSE 560 00:20:58,847 --> 00:20:59,915 THERE'S COMPLICATIONS IN 561 00:20:59,915 --> 00:21:01,450 SCALING. WHAT WAS INTERESTING 562 00:21:01,450 --> 00:21:04,553 THOUGH WAS THAT WHEN WE ADD NEW 563 00:21:04,553 --> 00:21:06,822 NEURONS TO THIS, WE SAW THAT THE 564 00:21:06,822 --> 00:21:11,226 OVERALL SCALING EFFECT DIDN'T 565 00:21:11,226 --> 00:21:13,795 CHANGE MATURE CELLS BUT YOUNG 566 00:21:13,795 --> 00:21:16,565 CELLS DIDN'T CARE, THE YOUNG 567 00:21:16,565 --> 00:21:18,700 NEURONS WEIRDLY, THEY ONLY -- 568 00:21:18,700 --> 00:21:19,835 ALREADY HAVE FEWER CONNECTIONS 569 00:21:19,835 --> 00:21:22,537 THAN MATURE CELLS DO, THEY ARE 570 00:21:22,537 --> 00:21:23,538 SMALL NETWORK NEURONS TO BEGIN 571 00:21:23,538 --> 00:21:25,240 WITH SO I THAT DIDN'T CARE THE 572 00:21:25,240 --> 00:21:26,508 SIZE OF THE MODEL. BUT THE 573 00:21:26,508 --> 00:21:29,711 MATURE CELLS DID. WE LOOKED AT 574 00:21:29,711 --> 00:21:30,412 PATTERN SEPARATION AND 575 00:21:30,412 --> 00:21:32,013 INFORMATION CODING, WE SAW THAT 576 00:21:32,013 --> 00:21:34,082 IT WAS IMPROVED WITH NEW 577 00:21:34,082 --> 00:21:35,684 NEURONS. SO THIS WAS EXCITING 578 00:21:35,684 --> 00:21:37,919 FOR ONE REASON, WHICH I DIDN'T 579 00:21:37,919 --> 00:21:39,955 REALLY GO INTO WHICH IS THAT AS 580 00:21:39,955 --> 00:21:41,423 I MENTION HUMAN NEUROGENESIS IS 581 00:21:41,423 --> 00:21:43,825 THOUGHT A LOW LEVEL. MUCH LOWER 582 00:21:43,825 --> 00:21:45,694 THAN MICE RELATIVELY BUT THIS 583 00:21:45,694 --> 00:21:46,761 WOULD SUGGEST AS YOU GO TO 584 00:21:46,761 --> 00:21:49,431 LARGER SCALES YOU DON'T NEED AS 585 00:21:49,431 --> 00:21:50,532 MANY NEW NEURONS. THAT WAS 586 00:21:50,532 --> 00:21:53,835 QUITING. BUT WHAT WASN'T 587 00:21:53,835 --> 00:21:55,937 EXCITING IS AFTER DOING ALL THAT 588 00:21:55,937 --> 00:21:57,339 WORK, AND THAT TOOK A WHILE TO 589 00:21:57,339 --> 00:22:00,876 BUILD THE MODEL AND RUN THESE 590 00:22:00,876 --> 00:22:03,011 THINGS, I REALIZE WE DIDN'T 591 00:22:03,011 --> 00:22:05,747 LEARN MUCH. THIS WAS A BIT 592 00:22:05,747 --> 00:22:07,082 UNDERWHELMING AT THE TIME 593 00:22:07,082 --> 00:22:08,550 BECAUSE WE WERE LOOKING -- I 594 00:22:08,550 --> 00:22:09,518 REALIZED IT WAS BECAUSE WE WERE 595 00:22:09,518 --> 00:22:11,520 LOOKING FOR PATTERN SEPARATION 596 00:22:11,520 --> 00:22:13,588 AND WE FOUND PATTERN SEPARATION 597 00:22:13,588 --> 00:22:17,159 THIS IS A CHALLENGE THAT OFTEN 598 00:22:17,159 --> 00:22:18,760 HAPPENS IN NEUROSCIENCE, A BIG 599 00:22:18,760 --> 00:22:20,862 CHALLENGE IN SYSTEMS AND 600 00:22:20,862 --> 00:22:21,463 COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE IN 601 00:22:21,463 --> 00:22:25,934 PARTICULAR, WHICH IS THAT THE 602 00:22:25,934 --> 00:22:27,836 SYSTEM, THINGS ARE SO 603 00:22:27,836 --> 00:22:28,770 COMPLICATED WE CONSTRUCT OUR 604 00:22:28,770 --> 00:22:30,906 EXPERIMENTS FOR HYPOTHESIS BUT 605 00:22:30,906 --> 00:22:32,040 SINCE SYSTEMS ARE COMPLICATED IT 606 00:22:32,040 --> 00:22:34,676 IS EASY TO FINDS VALIDATION. 607 00:22:34,676 --> 00:22:36,111 CONFIRMATION BIAS VALE, IT IS 608 00:22:36,111 --> 00:22:37,112 CERTAINLY IN THE CASE OF 609 00:22:37,112 --> 00:22:38,780 SIMULATIONS. THINGS LIKE 610 00:22:38,780 --> 00:22:39,648 FINDING THE CORRELATIONS IN DATA 611 00:22:39,648 --> 00:22:45,453 IS NOT HARD. SO I WAS A LITTLE 612 00:22:45,453 --> 00:22:46,721 -- THIS WAS A LITTLE 613 00:22:46,721 --> 00:22:50,325 DISCOURAGING. AND IN A REAL WAY 614 00:22:50,325 --> 00:22:53,361 LED TO ME KIND OF DIALING BACK A 615 00:22:53,361 --> 00:22:56,698 LITTLE ON THE THE BOTTOMUP 616 00:22:56,698 --> 00:22:59,034 SIMULATION EFFORT. PART OF THE 617 00:22:59,034 --> 00:23:01,369 REASON WAS THAT WHEN YOU START 618 00:23:01,369 --> 00:23:03,171 SEEING, ASK WHAT YOU REALLY 619 00:23:03,171 --> 00:23:04,506 NEED, YOU NEED LOTS OF DATA; WE 620 00:23:04,506 --> 00:23:05,907 DIDN'T HAVE THAT MUCH AT THE 621 00:23:05,907 --> 00:23:07,809 TIME, GETTING IT BY DEN DAY WAS 622 00:23:07,809 --> 00:23:09,778 NOT JUST THE DEN DAY, EVERYTHING 623 00:23:09,778 --> 00:23:11,379 ELSE MATTERS TOO. THE TIME 624 00:23:11,379 --> 00:23:15,150 SCALES ARE A BIG DEAL. AND WE 625 00:23:15,150 --> 00:23:16,651 HAVE THIS BIG GROWING ISSUE THAT 626 00:23:16,651 --> 00:23:17,819 I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO LOOK FOR 627 00:23:17,819 --> 00:23:20,021 WHEN IT CAME TO COMPUTATIONAL 628 00:23:20,021 --> 00:23:21,590 MODELS. LIKE WHAT IS A TASK I 629 00:23:21,590 --> 00:23:24,025 WANT TO DO. CONTEXT FEAR 630 00:23:24,025 --> 00:23:25,293 CONDITIONING WE SAW EFFECTS ON 631 00:23:25,293 --> 00:23:28,063 IN MOUSE, IT INVOLVES A LOT OF 632 00:23:28,063 --> 00:23:32,934 SYSTEMS LOT MORE IN DENTATE SO 633 00:23:32,934 --> 00:23:34,636 HOW DO WE MATCH THESE? WE HAD 634 00:23:34,636 --> 00:23:36,638 THESE SORT OFFER HARD LESSONS -- 635 00:23:36,638 --> 00:23:38,607 OF HARD LESSONS YOU CAN MODEL 636 00:23:38,607 --> 00:23:41,076 SOMETHING COMPLICATED OR SMALL 637 00:23:41,076 --> 00:23:43,612 UNCOMPLICATED OR BIG AND SIMPLE, 638 00:23:43,612 --> 00:23:47,749 WE NEED BETTER BEHAVIORAL TASK. 639 00:23:47,749 --> 00:23:49,684 THIS WAS ME ABOUT TEN YEARS AGO. 640 00:23:49,684 --> 00:23:52,754 WHAT HAPPENED ABOUT TEN YEARS 641 00:23:52,754 --> 00:23:55,523 AGO? I THINK EVERYONE HERE IS 642 00:23:55,523 --> 00:23:56,591 FAMILIAR WITH ONE THING THAT 643 00:23:56,591 --> 00:23:58,159 HAPPENED, THERE WAS A MAJOR 644 00:23:58,159 --> 00:23:59,694 INVESTMENT IN THE BRAIN 645 00:23:59,694 --> 00:24:02,163 INITIATIVE THAT WANTED -- I 646 00:24:02,163 --> 00:24:03,898 WOULD SAY WONDERFULLY SAID LET'S 647 00:24:03,898 --> 00:24:06,668 GET TO THIS BIOLOGICAL 648 00:24:06,668 --> 00:24:08,236 COMPLEXITY CHALLENGE. WE DON'T 649 00:24:08,236 --> 00:24:11,973 KNOW ENOUGH. I SHOWED YOU WHY 650 00:24:11,973 --> 00:24:13,475 FROM ONE EXAMPLE WE DON'T KNOW 651 00:24:13,475 --> 00:24:14,843 ENOUGH ABOUT ASPECT OF THE BRAIN 652 00:24:14,843 --> 00:24:17,412 TO MAKE DEEPER INSIGHT. AND THE 653 00:24:17,412 --> 00:24:19,214 BRAIN INITIATIVE FACES HEAD ON. 654 00:24:19,214 --> 00:24:21,116 THE HUMAN BRAIN PROJECT DID THE 655 00:24:21,116 --> 00:24:22,417 SAME THING AT A DIFFERENT SCALE 656 00:24:22,417 --> 00:24:24,352 AND HAD A DIFFERENT EMPHASIS OF 657 00:24:24,352 --> 00:24:25,253 COURSE BUT IT WAS HAPPENING 658 00:24:25,253 --> 00:24:27,589 AROUND THE SAME TIME. AND 659 00:24:27,589 --> 00:24:28,990 ANOTHER THING HAPPENED AROUND 660 00:24:28,990 --> 00:24:30,358 THE THIS TIME WHICH IS 661 00:24:30,358 --> 00:24:31,726 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE 662 00:24:31,726 --> 00:24:36,131 EXPLODED. AI IS NOT BUY LOGICAL 663 00:24:36,131 --> 00:24:38,066 INTELLIGENCE, THAT IS WHY IT IS 664 00:24:38,066 --> 00:24:39,134 ARTIFICIAL, NOT BIOLOGICAL, WHAT 665 00:24:39,134 --> 00:24:41,136 I THINK IF YOU LOOK AT WHAT 666 00:24:41,136 --> 00:24:43,438 HAPPENED IN SOME WAYS IT DID THE 667 00:24:43,438 --> 00:24:45,206 OPPOSITE, IT STRIPPED WHATEVER 668 00:24:45,206 --> 00:24:46,441 BIOLOGICAL COMPLEXITY REMAINED 669 00:24:46,441 --> 00:24:47,842 IN THINGS LIKE NEURAL NETWORKS 670 00:24:47,842 --> 00:24:50,912 AND FOCUSED ON LET'S MAKING THIS 671 00:24:50,912 --> 00:24:52,881 BIG AS POSSIBLE AS SIMPLE AS 672 00:24:52,881 --> 00:24:53,848 POSSIBLE. BUT AT THE SAME TIME 673 00:24:53,848 --> 00:24:57,552 WE ARE DOING BOTH THE AB OHIO 674 00:24:57,552 --> 00:24:58,386 MAYBE THESE THINGS THINGS CAN 675 00:24:58,386 --> 00:24:59,354 COMBINE AND ONE WAY THEY COMBINE 676 00:24:59,354 --> 00:25:01,723 IS NEUROMORPHIC COMPUTING. THAT 677 00:25:01,723 --> 00:25:03,291 CHUTELY I BELIEVE IS A PATH BY 678 00:25:03,291 --> 00:25:06,861 WHICH WE CAN GET COMPLEXITY AND 679 00:25:06,861 --> 00:25:08,430 SCALE TOGETHER AND THIS 680 00:25:08,430 --> 00:25:11,199 SOMETHING THAT IS NOT IN LIEU OF 681 00:25:11,199 --> 00:25:14,069 THESE OTHER THINGS. WE 682 00:25:14,069 --> 00:25:15,470 ABSOLUTELY HAVE TO HAVE THIS 683 00:25:15,470 --> 00:25:20,241 FOCUS ON BIOLOGICAL COMPLEXITY. 684 00:25:20,241 --> 00:25:21,309 THE EYE FIELD IS NOT GOING 685 00:25:21,309 --> 00:25:22,644 ANYWHERE. ARTIFICIAL NETWORKS 686 00:25:22,644 --> 00:25:24,579 ARE THE WORLD WE LIVE IN NOW. 687 00:25:24,579 --> 00:25:25,680 HOW DO WE TAKE ADVANTAGE OF 688 00:25:25,680 --> 00:25:27,349 THIS? WE CAN START PUSHING TO 689 00:25:27,349 --> 00:25:33,254 THE TOP RIGHT OF THIS. SO WHAT 690 00:25:33,254 --> 00:25:34,489 IS NEUROMORPHIC COMPUTING? I 691 00:25:34,489 --> 00:25:35,957 HAVE THROWN ET AROUND A FEW 692 00:25:35,957 --> 00:25:37,092 TIMES. NEUROMORPHIC COMPUTEING 693 00:25:37,092 --> 00:25:41,262 IS A FIELD EXISTED -- PARDON ME, 694 00:25:41,262 --> 00:25:43,331 EXISTED SINCE THE 19 # 0s, 695 00:25:43,331 --> 00:25:47,802 CARBON MEAD IS -- CARVER MEAD, 696 00:25:47,802 --> 00:25:49,104 ELECTRICAL ENGINEER CRITICAL AT 697 00:25:49,104 --> 00:25:51,239 STAGES OF BUILDING INTEGRATED 698 00:25:51,239 --> 00:25:52,407 CIRCUITS. TOWARDS THE ENDS OF 699 00:25:52,407 --> 00:25:56,978 HIS RESEARCH CAREER, HE AND GRAD 700 00:25:56,978 --> 00:25:59,147 STUDENT (INDISCERNIBLE) DECIDED 701 00:25:59,147 --> 00:26:01,816 TO BEGIN TO EMULATE PARTS OF 702 00:26:01,816 --> 00:26:02,851 NEURAL SYSTEMS AS UNDERSTOOD IN 703 00:26:02,851 --> 00:26:07,622 THE '80s IN SILICON. THAT SORT 704 00:26:07,622 --> 00:26:11,092 OF IS MEAD'S VISION ORIGINALLY, 705 00:26:11,092 --> 00:26:12,994 LET'S PUT WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT 706 00:26:12,994 --> 00:26:16,131 DIFFERENT SENSORY SYSTEMS AND 707 00:26:16,131 --> 00:26:18,166 BUILD SILICON CHIPS OUT OF IT TO 708 00:26:18,166 --> 00:26:20,101 CAPTURE THAT. THAT FIELD TOOK 709 00:26:20,101 --> 00:26:22,270 OFF. THERE IS A COMMUNITY OF 710 00:26:22,270 --> 00:26:24,973 RESEARCHERS THEY FOCUS A LOT ON 711 00:26:24,973 --> 00:26:26,241 THINGS LIKE EVENT BASE SENSORS 712 00:26:26,241 --> 00:26:28,410 THAT LED TO ARTIFICIAL RETINAS 713 00:26:28,410 --> 00:26:31,679 AND COCHLEAS AND SO FORTH, BASED 714 00:26:31,679 --> 00:26:33,448 CAMERAS. AND ABOUT TEN YEARS AGO 715 00:26:33,448 --> 00:26:35,683 THAT FIELD WAS GOING ALONG LOOK 716 00:26:35,683 --> 00:26:39,120 AT ANALOG, NON-DIGITAL SILICON 717 00:26:39,120 --> 00:26:42,524 ELECTRONICS, ABOUT TEN YEARS AGO 718 00:26:42,524 --> 00:26:45,026 THERE WAS A RENEWAL OF INTEREST 719 00:26:45,026 --> 00:26:47,228 FROM THE MOORE COMPUTER SCIENCE 720 00:26:47,228 --> 00:26:48,263 COMMUNITY, PARTLY DRIVEN BY 721 00:26:48,263 --> 00:26:50,665 STUFF GOING ON IN AI LOOKING 722 00:26:50,665 --> 00:26:53,802 TOWARDS LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS. 723 00:26:53,802 --> 00:26:54,836 BASICALLY BECAUSE THE BRAIN IS 724 00:26:54,836 --> 00:26:56,738 REALLY EFFICIENT AT COMPUTING 725 00:26:56,738 --> 00:26:58,106 AND THE COMPUTERS TODAY ARE NOT 726 00:26:58,106 --> 00:27:02,010 EFFICIENT AT COMPUTING. IN TERMS 727 00:27:02,010 --> 00:27:03,912 OF ENERGY. SO THERE ARE TWO 728 00:27:03,912 --> 00:27:05,280 BROAD CLASSES OF NEUROMORPHIC 729 00:27:05,280 --> 00:27:08,650 COMPUTING. I WON'T GO INTO GORY 730 00:27:08,650 --> 00:27:12,387 DETAILDETAILS. WE FOCUS AT SANN 731 00:27:12,387 --> 00:27:14,756 LARGE DIGITAL CMOSS TECHNOLOGY. 732 00:27:14,756 --> 00:27:16,658 THESE ARE THE UNDERLYING 733 00:27:16,658 --> 00:27:19,727 FABRICATION TECHNOLOGY OF A 734 00:27:19,727 --> 00:27:22,964 INTEL CHIP YOU ARE SEEING BOXED 735 00:27:22,964 --> 00:27:24,732 HERE BOTTOM RIGHT AT SANDIA. 736 00:27:24,732 --> 00:27:27,368 THOSE CHIPS ARE THE SAME 737 00:27:27,368 --> 00:27:28,436 MATERIALS AND FABRICATION IN 738 00:27:28,436 --> 00:27:30,939 YOUR CELL PHONE, LAPTOP, 739 00:27:30,939 --> 00:27:34,576 WHATEVER. BUT THE ARCHITECTURE 740 00:27:34,576 --> 00:27:36,411 IS NOT PROGRAMMABLE THE WAY YOU 741 00:27:36,411 --> 00:27:38,179 PROGRAM A NORMAL COMPUTER, IT 742 00:27:38,179 --> 00:27:42,116 DOESN'T NATURALLY REPYTHON, IT 743 00:27:42,116 --> 00:27:43,551 IS AN ARCHITECTURE RATHER THAT 744 00:27:43,551 --> 00:27:45,553 LOOKS MORE LIKE THE BRAIN, 745 00:27:45,553 --> 00:27:48,356 PROGRAM CIRCUITS OF NEURONS. THE 746 00:27:48,356 --> 00:27:49,824 OTHER ALTERNATIVE IS ANALOG 747 00:27:49,824 --> 00:27:51,359 SYSTEMS, I WON'T GO INTO DETAIL, 748 00:27:51,359 --> 00:27:55,463 WE DO THIS WORK AT SANDIA. IT IS 749 00:27:55,463 --> 00:27:57,866 FURTHER OUT, MORE CAPTURING THE 750 00:27:57,866 --> 00:28:00,134 BIOPHYSIC, HAS LONGER PATH 751 00:28:00,134 --> 00:28:03,872 TOWARDS SCALING, PROBABLY THE 752 00:28:03,872 --> 00:28:06,641 FUTURE BUT I'M GOING TO FOCUS 753 00:28:06,641 --> 00:28:10,578 MORE ON DIGITAL CMOS TECHNOLOGY. 754 00:28:10,578 --> 00:28:13,147 THIS IS MORE COMPUTER ARCHITECT 755 00:28:13,147 --> 00:28:13,781 OAR CENTED SLIDE, THERE'S LIST 756 00:28:13,781 --> 00:28:16,718 OF THINGS FROM THE BRAIN 757 00:28:16,718 --> 00:28:17,252 TRANSLATED TO ELECTRICAL 758 00:28:17,252 --> 00:28:18,019 ENGINEERING OR COMPUTER 759 00:28:18,019 --> 00:28:21,089 ENGINEERING CONCEPTS LIKE 760 00:28:21,089 --> 00:28:22,257 SPIKING COMPLEX NETWORKS, 761 00:28:22,257 --> 00:28:23,858 ABILITY OF SYNAPSES AND NEURONS 762 00:28:23,858 --> 00:28:25,927 TO EXIST IN THE SAME PHYSICAL 763 00:28:25,927 --> 00:28:27,295 LOCATION, LEARNING. ALL THESE 764 00:28:27,295 --> 00:28:28,997 THINGS ARE WHAT THESE HARDWARE 765 00:28:28,997 --> 00:28:32,033 PLATFORMS TRY TO CAPTURE. IT IS 766 00:28:32,033 --> 00:28:33,701 RAPIDSLY EVOLVING FIELD. I HI 767 00:28:33,701 --> 00:28:37,005 THE FULL DETAILS OF IT THEY WILL 768 00:28:37,005 --> 00:28:38,206 CONTINUES TO CHANGE OVER THE 769 00:28:38,206 --> 00:28:40,408 COURSE OF THE COMING YEARS AND 770 00:28:40,408 --> 00:28:42,544 DECADES BUT RIGHT NOW WE CAN GET 771 00:28:42,544 --> 00:28:44,112 A BILLION NEURONS ON TO EACH OF 772 00:28:44,112 --> 00:28:45,813 THESE LITTLE CHIPS YOU SEE ON 773 00:28:45,813 --> 00:28:47,615 THE TOP RIGHT, MILLION NEURONS 774 00:28:47,615 --> 00:28:50,251 EACH OF THESE CHIPS. WE CAN GET 775 00:28:50,251 --> 00:28:51,486 BILLIONS OF NEURONS IN A 776 00:28:51,486 --> 00:28:52,787 PLATFORM WHICH IS ABOUT THE SIZE 777 00:28:52,787 --> 00:28:55,056 OF THIS LARGE MICROWAIVE HEAR, 778 00:28:55,056 --> 00:28:56,958 WE HAVE ONE AT SANDIA, THE 779 00:28:56,958 --> 00:28:58,326 LARGEST NEUROMORPHIC SYSTEM THAT 780 00:28:58,326 --> 00:29:00,895 IS IN OUR LAB THERE. EACH OF HE 781 00:29:00,895 --> 00:29:05,033 IS CHIPS IS ONE WATT OF POWER. 782 00:29:05,033 --> 00:29:07,735 THAT IS ABOUT 100TH OF CPU THAT 783 00:29:07,735 --> 00:29:09,737 MIGHT BE IN YOUR LAPTOP AND 784 00:29:09,737 --> 00:29:12,373 MAYBE ABOUT A THOUSANDTH OF 785 00:29:12,373 --> 00:29:17,245 PRODUCTION LEVEL GPU. GIVE OR 786 00:29:17,245 --> 00:29:19,814 TAKE. I WILL TALK NEUROMORPHIC, 787 00:29:19,814 --> 00:29:21,416 GIVE THREE VIGNETTES THIS LAST 788 00:29:21,416 --> 00:29:23,785 PART OF THE TALK. WHERE I WANT 789 00:29:23,785 --> 00:29:26,821 TO SHOW WHAT NEUROMORPHIC VIEW 790 00:29:26,821 --> 00:29:28,590 OF COMPUTATION CAN TELL US ABOUT 791 00:29:28,590 --> 00:29:33,494 BRAIN. GIVEN THIS SORT OF 792 00:29:33,494 --> 00:29:35,063 NEUROGENESIS INSPIRED VISION 793 00:29:35,063 --> 00:29:36,230 BEFORE WHERE THOSE CHALLENGES 794 00:29:36,230 --> 00:29:38,766 ARE. THE OBVIOUS ONE IS THAT WE 795 00:29:38,766 --> 00:29:40,602 CAN GET TO THINGS AT SCALE. THAT 796 00:29:40,602 --> 00:29:41,769 IS WHAT I WILL START WITH. THE 797 00:29:41,769 --> 00:29:44,539 SECOND ONE IS THAT I BELIEVE IT 798 00:29:44,539 --> 00:29:45,940 PROVIDES INTERESTING CONSTRAINTS 799 00:29:45,940 --> 00:29:47,742 HOW TO ANALYZE DATA, THAT COMES 800 00:29:47,742 --> 00:29:49,978 OUT OF LARGER NEURAL SYSTEMS 801 00:29:49,978 --> 00:29:52,180 BECAUSE IN SOME LEVEL IF WE HAVE 802 00:29:52,180 --> 00:29:53,748 MILLIONS OF NEURONS IN CHIP WE 803 00:29:53,748 --> 00:29:55,083 ARE GOING TO ANALYZE THAT DATA 804 00:29:55,083 --> 00:29:57,418 IF WE SIMULATE IT. THE FINAL 805 00:29:57,418 --> 00:29:59,787 THING WHICH IS A LITTLE BIT MORE 806 00:29:59,787 --> 00:30:02,590 OUT THERE, I WILL ADMIT, IS THAT 807 00:30:02,590 --> 00:30:04,525 WE MIGHT BE ABLE TO ACTUALLY 808 00:30:04,525 --> 00:30:05,226 UNCOVER SOME NEW DIRECTIONS TO 809 00:30:05,226 --> 00:30:06,961 THINK ABOUT HOW THE BRAIN IS 810 00:30:06,961 --> 00:30:08,630 WORKING, BY LOOKING WHAT THESE 811 00:30:08,630 --> 00:30:11,032 CHIPS ARE GOOD AT. SO START OFF 812 00:30:11,032 --> 00:30:12,166 BY TALKING A LITTLE BIT ABOUT 813 00:30:12,166 --> 00:30:13,701 OUR ABILITY TO SIMULATE NEURAL 814 00:30:13,701 --> 00:30:17,972 SYSTEMS AT SCALE. SO OF COURSE 815 00:30:17,972 --> 00:30:22,477 THE DREAM IS IF I HAD A 816 00:30:22,477 --> 00:30:24,078 CONNECTOME OF A BRAIN, 817 00:30:24,078 --> 00:30:27,515 EVENTUALLY HUMAN BRAIN BUT 818 00:30:27,515 --> 00:30:28,616 CONNECTOME OF WHATEVER BRAIN YOU 819 00:30:28,616 --> 00:30:30,551 CARE ABOUT CAN I MODEL THAT 820 00:30:30,551 --> 00:30:33,354 CONNECTOME RELATIVELY EASILY ON 821 00:30:33,354 --> 00:30:36,024 A NEUROMORPHIC CHIP? CONNECTOMES 822 00:30:36,024 --> 00:30:37,291 ARE LOTS AND LOTS OF NEURONS, 823 00:30:37,291 --> 00:30:40,528 LOTS OF SYNAPSES. WE GENERALLY 824 00:30:40,528 --> 00:30:43,398 DON'T HAVE THEM. WELL AS MANY OF 825 00:30:43,398 --> 00:30:45,566 YOU KNOW, ABOUT A MONTH AGO LESS 826 00:30:45,566 --> 00:30:50,938 THAN A MONTH AGO THE FLY WIRE 827 00:30:50,938 --> 00:30:52,907 TEAM (INDISCERNIBLE) AND 828 00:30:52,907 --> 00:30:54,642 COLLEAGUES LARGELY PRINCETON THE 829 00:30:54,642 --> 00:30:56,644 BRAIN INITIATIVE HELPED FUND A 830 00:30:56,644 --> 00:30:59,981 LARGE PART OF, THE TEAM 831 00:30:59,981 --> 00:31:02,183 PUBLISHED A SERIES OF FIVE 832 00:31:02,183 --> 00:31:05,720 PAPERS, THESE ARE NEW, I MED MY 833 00:31:05,720 --> 00:31:06,954 WAY THROUGH A COUPLE OF THEM, 834 00:31:06,954 --> 00:31:07,889 NOT THROUGH EVERY DETAIL YET BUT 835 00:31:07,889 --> 00:31:09,657 PART OF WHAT THEY HAD IN THIS 836 00:31:09,657 --> 00:31:14,295 PAPER IS A FULLOME OF A 837 00:31:14,295 --> 00:31:15,096 DROSOPHILA BRAIN. THIS IS 838 00:31:15,096 --> 00:31:17,565 EXCITING BECAUSE WE HAD A 839 00:31:17,565 --> 00:31:20,301 CONNECTOME FOR A LONG TIME OF C 840 00:31:20,301 --> 00:31:22,070 ELEGANS BUT 307 OR SO NEURONS 841 00:31:22,070 --> 00:31:24,172 THAT ARE MOSTLY ANALOG IS 842 00:31:24,172 --> 00:31:26,107 DIFFERENT FROM A MODEL SYSTEM 843 00:31:26,107 --> 00:31:27,809 THAT IS IN THE HUNDREDS OF 844 00:31:27,809 --> 00:31:30,478 THOUSANDS OF NEURONS. AND CAN DO 845 00:31:30,478 --> 00:31:32,447 SOME VERY SOPHISTICATED 846 00:31:32,447 --> 00:31:34,182 BEHAVIORS. SO ONE OF THE PAPERS 847 00:31:34,182 --> 00:31:38,186 PUBLISHED HERE IS A BOTTLE OF 848 00:31:38,186 --> 00:31:41,289 SENSORY MOTOR PROCESSING 849 00:31:41,289 --> 00:31:42,390 OLFACTORY RESPONSE, ON -- THAT 850 00:31:42,390 --> 00:31:45,927 IS A MODEL OF THE FULL BRAIN. SO 851 00:31:45,927 --> 00:31:48,162 ADD THE CONNECTOME AND IMPLEMENT 852 00:31:48,162 --> 00:31:50,465 AD MODEL OF IT. SO WE ASKED THE 853 00:31:50,465 --> 00:31:53,334 QUESTION, I DIDN'T DO IT, 854 00:31:53,334 --> 00:31:55,069 BECAUSE I HAVE BEEN TRAVELING 855 00:31:55,069 --> 00:31:57,371 BUT COUPLE OF MY COLLEAGUES HERE 856 00:31:57,371 --> 00:32:02,910 AT SANDIA, (INDISCERNIBLE), THEY 857 00:32:02,910 --> 00:32:04,045 DECIDED JUST KIND OF LIKE WHAT 858 00:32:04,045 --> 00:32:06,114 WE HAD THESE CHIPS, WE HAVE THIS 859 00:32:06,114 --> 00:32:07,582 CONNECTOME E THEY PUBLISH 860 00:32:07,582 --> 00:32:08,683 EVERYTHING WITH IT. WE NEVER 861 00:32:08,683 --> 00:32:10,685 TALKED TO THE FIVE WIRE PEOPLE 862 00:32:10,685 --> 00:32:12,954 THEY DON'T KNOW WE DID THIS. BUT 863 00:32:12,954 --> 00:32:14,555 THEY PUBLISHED IT, IT IS THERE, 864 00:32:14,555 --> 00:32:16,891 AND WE SAID LET'S TAKE YOUR 865 00:32:16,891 --> 00:32:19,093 MODEL AND OR TAKE THAT MODEL AND 866 00:32:19,093 --> 00:32:22,163 STICK IT THROUGH A COUPLE OF OUR 867 00:32:22,163 --> 00:32:23,531 TOOLS, (INDISCERNIBLE) A SPIKING 868 00:32:23,531 --> 00:32:24,365 PROGRAMMING STOOL AND STACKS 869 00:32:24,365 --> 00:32:27,502 WHICH IS A LARGE SCALE 870 00:32:27,502 --> 00:32:29,670 SIMULATION TOOL AND MAP ON TO 871 00:32:29,670 --> 00:32:32,306 LOIHI. THEY DID, I WILL GIVE 872 00:32:32,306 --> 00:32:34,008 THEM THE CREDIT HERE BUT WE 873 00:32:34,008 --> 00:32:35,476 ACTUALLY WERE ABLE TO TAKE THIS 874 00:32:35,476 --> 00:32:37,278 MODEL OFF THE SHELF, LITS RALLY 875 00:32:37,278 --> 00:32:41,749 OFF THE SHELF, DOWNLOAD FROM GET 876 00:32:41,749 --> 00:32:44,519 LAB AND JUST STICK ON TO LOIHI 877 00:32:44,519 --> 00:32:49,590 AND I TOOK WORK, IT WASN'T 878 00:32:49,590 --> 00:32:50,958 INSTANTANEOUS BUT WE SEE 879 00:32:50,958 --> 00:32:52,960 DYNAMICS COMING OFF NEURONS IN 880 00:32:52,960 --> 00:32:55,096 THE CHIPS THAT ARE LARGELY 881 00:32:55,096 --> 00:32:58,666 ANALOGOUS TO WHAT WE SHOULD SEE. 882 00:32:58,666 --> 00:33:00,568 THIS IS -- I MEAN QUITE 883 00:33:00,568 --> 00:33:02,003 LITERALLY HOT OFF THE PRESSES. 884 00:33:02,003 --> 00:33:03,538 WE HAVEN'T GONE THROUGH 885 00:33:03,538 --> 00:33:04,739 VALIDATED EVERY SINGLE THING 886 00:33:04,739 --> 00:33:06,307 YET, THERE'S SOME DESIGN 887 00:33:06,307 --> 00:33:07,341 CONSIDERATION WE HAD TO DO BUT 888 00:33:07,341 --> 00:33:10,278 THIS SAYS THESE CHIPS COMING OFF 889 00:33:10,278 --> 00:33:14,148 THINGS LIKE INTEL'S LOIHI AND 890 00:33:14,148 --> 00:33:16,918 SPINNAKER, SPIN CLOUD SPINNAKER 891 00:33:16,918 --> 00:33:18,152 TWO CHIPS CAN RUN BIOLOGICAL 892 00:33:18,152 --> 00:33:21,689 MODELS AND IT IS A QUESTION OF 893 00:33:21,689 --> 00:33:23,658 ENGINEERING NOW HOW WE FIT THE 894 00:33:23,658 --> 00:33:25,393 BIOLOGY DATA WE ARE PRODUCING OR 895 00:33:25,393 --> 00:33:27,028 Y'ALL ARE PRODUCING TO THE CHIPS 896 00:33:27,028 --> 00:33:28,996 BEING PRODUCED. SO H IS PRETTY 897 00:33:28,996 --> 00:33:32,500 EXCITING. I THINK THIS WAS QUITE 898 00:33:32,500 --> 00:33:33,868 EXCITING AND NEUROMORPHIC 899 00:33:33,868 --> 00:33:34,869 COMPUTING HAS A REAL VALUE. 900 00:33:34,869 --> 00:33:36,904 THIS IS NOT A HUGE NETWORK 901 00:33:36,904 --> 00:33:38,673 NOWADAYS FOR PUT ON GPU. I DON'T 902 00:33:38,673 --> 00:33:41,809 THINK THERE IS A REAL -- WE 903 00:33:41,809 --> 00:33:43,411 DON'T HAVE TO HAVE NEUROMORPHIC 904 00:33:43,411 --> 00:33:46,447 TO STUDY FRUIT FLY BRAINS WE MAY 905 00:33:46,447 --> 00:33:48,149 FIND VALUE BUT AS WE SCALE 906 00:33:48,149 --> 00:33:50,051 LARGER SYSTEMS WE WILL. SO THIS 907 00:33:50,051 --> 00:33:53,955 IS -- THERE IS A PATH. SO THE 908 00:33:53,955 --> 00:33:58,693 SECOND THING. SO IF YOU CAN SEE 909 00:33:58,693 --> 00:34:00,394 FROM THIS LAST PLOT THERE ARE A 910 00:34:00,394 --> 00:34:03,598 LOT OF NEURONS. THIS IS ONLY 911 00:34:03,598 --> 00:34:06,334 PLOTTING HUNDRED THOUSAND 912 00:34:06,334 --> 00:34:09,237 NEURONS. SYSTEM WHEN WE SIMULATE 913 00:34:09,237 --> 00:34:11,539 ACTUAL CORTICAL NEURONS, WE DID 914 00:34:11,539 --> 00:34:14,075 ONE WITH SUPERCOMPUTERS OVER 26 915 00:34:14,075 --> 00:34:17,111 MILLION NEURONS USING THE STACKS 916 00:34:17,111 --> 00:34:17,879 TOOL, 20 MILLION NEURONS COMING 917 00:34:17,879 --> 00:34:20,481 OUT MODELING LOSE COURTSCAL 918 00:34:20,481 --> 00:34:22,049 ARCHITECT COURT CAT CONNECTIONS 919 00:34:22,049 --> 00:34:24,986 WE CALL THIS A MASTER PLOT IN 920 00:34:24,986 --> 00:34:26,587 SYSTEMS NEURO WHERE YOU HAVE 921 00:34:26,587 --> 00:34:28,289 OVER TIME LOTS OF NEURONS, 922 00:34:28,289 --> 00:34:29,624 FIRING AND NOT FIRING. THIS IS 923 00:34:29,624 --> 00:34:33,027 JUST LOOKS LIKE NOISE. SO WE 924 00:34:33,027 --> 00:34:35,863 EFFECTIVELY CREATE AD NEW BIG 925 00:34:35,863 --> 00:34:37,665 DATA PROBLEM. -- CREATED A NEW 926 00:34:37,665 --> 00:34:38,799 BIG DATA PROBLEM. ONE THING THAT 927 00:34:38,799 --> 00:34:39,967 WAS AN INTERESTING THOUGHT WHEN 928 00:34:39,967 --> 00:34:41,369 WE PUT THESE BIG NEURAL 929 00:34:41,369 --> 00:34:42,970 SIMULATIONS ON TO THESE 930 00:34:42,970 --> 00:34:45,840 SUPERCOMPUTERS, THIS WAS ON THE 931 00:34:45,840 --> 00:34:47,742 OAKRIDGE SUMMIT MACHINE, WE SAW 932 00:34:47,742 --> 00:34:50,444 -- WE HAVE THIS TEMPTATION WE 933 00:34:50,444 --> 00:34:53,748 ALL HAVE, I'M SILL LATED EVERY 934 00:34:53,748 --> 00:34:55,516 NEURON AND SHOULD RECORD EVERY 935 00:34:55,516 --> 00:34:57,184 NEURON WHICH CREATE AS DATA 936 00:34:57,184 --> 00:34:59,687 PROBLEM BUT WHEN YOU DO THE 937 00:34:59,687 --> 00:35:02,590 NEUROMORPHIC SYSTEM IF YOU 938 00:35:02,590 --> 00:35:05,126 RECORD FROM EVERY NEURON FROM 939 00:35:05,126 --> 00:35:05,960 EVERY SYSTEM RATION YOU LOSE THE 940 00:35:05,960 --> 00:35:08,062 ADVANTAGE OF BEING NEUROMORPHIC 941 00:35:08,062 --> 00:35:09,363 IF YOU HAVE TO GIGABYTES OF 942 00:35:09,363 --> 00:35:14,035 DATA. SO INPUT OUTPUT IS 943 00:35:14,035 --> 00:35:15,603 EXPENSIVE SO WE WANTED TO 944 00:35:15,603 --> 00:35:17,104 OBSERVE A SUBSET OF ACTIVITY 945 00:35:17,104 --> 00:35:18,272 WHICH IS WHAT WE DEAL WITH WITH 946 00:35:18,272 --> 00:35:19,640 THE BRAIN. I CAN'T IMAGINE 947 00:35:19,640 --> 00:35:21,075 FUTURE WHERE WE ARE GOING TO 948 00:35:21,075 --> 00:35:23,744 RECORD THE SPIKING ACTIVITY OF 949 00:35:23,744 --> 00:35:24,979 PATIENTS OF EVERY NEURON IN 950 00:35:24,979 --> 00:35:25,913 PATIENT BRAIN. WE ARE ALWAYS 951 00:35:25,913 --> 00:35:26,914 GOING TO BE LOOKING AT A 952 00:35:26,914 --> 00:35:29,016 SUBSETS. SO WHAT DO WE DO IF 953 00:35:29,016 --> 00:35:30,851 ONLY LOOK AT SUBSET? HOW DO WE 954 00:35:30,851 --> 00:35:34,288 GO FROM SPIKES TO SOMETHING A 955 00:35:34,288 --> 00:35:36,824 LITTLE MORE ABSTRACT? THIS IS 956 00:35:36,824 --> 00:35:38,526 WORK BY MY POST DOC WHO CAME 957 00:35:38,526 --> 00:35:40,828 FROM THE BIRD SONG COMMUNITY IN 958 00:35:40,828 --> 00:35:42,863 GET NEAR'S LAB AT UCSD. HE HAD 959 00:35:42,863 --> 00:35:44,465 THIS REALIZATION THAT AS WE ARE 960 00:35:44,465 --> 00:35:46,801 LOOK AT THIS LARGE SCALE DATA WE 961 00:35:46,801 --> 00:35:49,603 TENDS TO DO WHAT PEOPLE TRAINED 962 00:35:49,603 --> 00:35:52,873 IN SERIAL COMPUTING PROGRAM DO, 963 00:35:52,873 --> 00:35:55,876 IS THINK ABOUT CHUNK OF TIME, 964 00:35:55,876 --> 00:35:57,345 WHAT SPIKING EVENTS HAPPEN 965 00:35:57,345 --> 00:35:58,779 DIFFERENT PERIOD OF TIME AND 966 00:35:58,779 --> 00:36:01,549 THAT SORT OF PATTERN OF TIME 967 00:36:01,549 --> 00:36:03,417 PROGRESSES FORWARD, TRAJECTORY 968 00:36:03,417 --> 00:36:05,953 THROUGH TIME AND SPACE. AND 969 00:36:05,953 --> 00:36:08,622 WHAT BRAD'S REALIZATION WAS 970 00:36:08,622 --> 00:36:10,091 THERE IS NO REASON THE BRAIN 971 00:36:10,091 --> 00:36:12,560 NEEDS TO BE -- THE BRAIN IS NOT 972 00:36:12,560 --> 00:36:14,562 CHUNKING THINGS UP IN TIME, TIME 973 00:36:14,562 --> 00:36:15,596 IS AN ARTIFICIAL CONSTRUCT 974 00:36:15,596 --> 00:36:16,764 BECAUSE THAT'S HOW WE MEASURE 975 00:36:16,764 --> 00:36:18,566 AND SYSTEM LATE THINGS BUT THESE 976 00:36:18,566 --> 00:36:20,368 NEURONS ARE -- THEY ARE -- 977 00:36:20,368 --> 00:36:23,604 SIMULATE THINGS, THEY ARE FIRING 978 00:36:23,604 --> 00:36:25,606 ASYNCHRONOUSLY BASED ON THEIR 979 00:36:25,606 --> 00:36:27,308 INPUTS, MAYBE A LITTLE LOOSE 980 00:36:27,308 --> 00:36:28,042 INFORMATION. 981 00:36:28,042 --> 00:36:29,677 THAT'S WORK LOOK AT CAUSAL 982 00:36:29,677 --> 00:36:30,811 RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN NEURONS IN 983 00:36:30,811 --> 00:36:32,880 THESE MASTER PLOTS AND WHAT BRAD 984 00:36:32,880 --> 00:36:33,848 REALIZED IF I'M DOING A 985 00:36:33,848 --> 00:36:35,616 SIMULATION I HAVE A CONNECTOME. 986 00:36:35,616 --> 00:36:37,084 I SIMULATED IT. I KNOW WHAT 987 00:36:37,084 --> 00:36:38,986 CONNECTS TO WHAT. IF YOU COMBINE 988 00:36:38,986 --> 00:36:40,354 THAT ASSORTMENT OF FUNCTIONAL 989 00:36:40,354 --> 00:36:41,889 CAUSALITY MEASURES, THAT PEOPLE 990 00:36:41,889 --> 00:36:44,258 HAVE BEEN DOING FOR A FEW YEARS, 991 00:36:44,258 --> 00:36:45,593 WITH STRUCTURAL CONSTRAINTS, YOU 992 00:36:45,593 --> 00:36:49,163 GET SOMETHING THAT IS ANALOGOUS 993 00:36:49,163 --> 00:36:51,499 TO A SPIKE DEPENDENT PLASTICITY 994 00:36:51,499 --> 00:36:53,434 ROLE, WON'T GO INTO DETAIL BUT 995 00:36:53,434 --> 00:36:55,436 COMING OFF THAT WE DID SOMETHING 996 00:36:55,436 --> 00:36:58,839 WE CALL GRAPHICAL NEURAL 997 00:36:58,839 --> 00:37:00,307 ACTIVITY THREADS. WE LIKE 998 00:37:00,307 --> 00:37:02,309 ACRONYMS. WE ARE A NATIONAL 999 00:37:02,309 --> 00:37:06,380 LAB. GOT TO LOVE THE ACRONYMS SO 1000 00:37:06,380 --> 00:37:09,750 OUR GNATS DECOMPOSE THESE INTO 1001 00:37:09,750 --> 00:37:12,086 SERIES OF OVERLAPPING 1002 00:37:12,086 --> 00:37:14,188 POPULATIONS OF CAUSALLY LINKED 1003 00:37:14,188 --> 00:37:16,323 NEURON PATTERNS. WHAT'S REALLY 1004 00:37:16,323 --> 00:37:18,092 GREAT, THIS IS A PAPER WE HAVE 1005 00:37:18,092 --> 00:37:20,227 ON ARCHIVE WRITING UP FOR MORE 1006 00:37:20,227 --> 00:37:25,299 FORMAL WAY RIGHT NOW, IS THAT 1007 00:37:25,299 --> 00:37:27,134 YOU SEE THESE SAME SORT OF 1008 00:37:27,134 --> 00:37:29,136 CORRELATED PATTERNS CAN EXIST 1009 00:37:29,136 --> 00:37:29,970 SEVERAL TIMES OF THE SYSTEM, IT 1010 00:37:29,970 --> 00:37:32,740 IS NOT JUST A ONE OFF THING, 1011 00:37:32,740 --> 00:37:34,475 SEEING LIKE ENSEMBLES THAT ARE 1012 00:37:34,475 --> 00:37:35,509 SPATIAL TEMPORAL THAT WILL 1013 00:37:35,509 --> 00:37:37,545 REPEAT THEMSELVES OVER TIME. 1014 00:37:37,545 --> 00:37:39,547 MOREOVER, IF I WITH GIVE CERTAIN 1015 00:37:39,547 --> 00:37:42,049 SET OF INPUTS I SEE CERTAIN 1016 00:37:42,049 --> 00:37:44,285 PATTERNS RELIABLY REACTIVATE 1017 00:37:44,285 --> 00:37:46,053 THEMSELVES MAYBE NOT EVERY TIME, 1018 00:37:46,053 --> 00:37:47,288 THERE'S STOW CHASTITY IN THE 1019 00:37:47,288 --> 00:37:48,422 MODEL AND RANDOM WHEN THEY POP 1020 00:37:48,422 --> 00:37:53,527 UP BUT THIS IS A FAIRLY SCALABLE 1021 00:37:53,527 --> 00:37:59,100 APPROACH TO ABSTRACT AWAY NEURON 1022 00:37:59,100 --> 00:38:02,436 ONE FIRE AT TIME 1, NEURON 2 1023 00:38:02,436 --> 00:38:04,405 FIRED AT TIME 5, THIS IS ZOOMING 1024 00:38:04,405 --> 00:38:05,606 OUT MAYBE MAKE SOMETHING A 1025 00:38:05,606 --> 00:38:06,774 LITTLE MORE USEFUL FROM A 1026 00:38:06,774 --> 00:38:07,875 COMPUTING POINT OF VIEW, 1027 00:38:07,875 --> 00:38:09,076 POTENTIALLY FROM A MONITORING 1028 00:38:09,076 --> 00:38:12,947 POINT OF VIEW. SO THIS IS EARLY 1029 00:38:12,947 --> 00:38:15,816 DAYS WE JUST GOT CRC PROJECT 1030 00:38:15,816 --> 00:38:18,185 THROUGH DOE THAT'S WORKING WITH 1031 00:38:18,185 --> 00:38:24,125 TIM GETNER AT UCSD AND JOE 1032 00:38:24,125 --> 00:38:26,460 ROSEFELD AT USF TO LOOK AT MORE 1033 00:38:26,460 --> 00:38:28,028 DETAIL WITH REAL DATA BUT WE ARE 1034 00:38:28,028 --> 00:38:29,897 PRETTY EXCITED. GRAB SOME 1035 00:38:29,897 --> 00:38:37,171 WATER. THE FINAL STEP I WOULD 1036 00:38:37,171 --> 00:38:40,508 LIKE TO TALK ABOUT BRIEFLY, IS 1037 00:38:40,508 --> 00:38:42,243 THIS IDEA THAT WE MIGHT BE ABLE 1038 00:38:42,243 --> 00:38:44,011 TO GET A DEEPER UNDERSTANDING 1039 00:38:44,011 --> 00:38:45,646 ABOUT HOW THE BRAIN'S 1040 00:38:45,646 --> 00:38:47,214 FUNCTIONING FROM LOOKING AT WHAT 1041 00:38:47,214 --> 00:38:48,449 THE NEUROMORPHIC SYSTEMS ARE 1042 00:38:48,449 --> 00:38:53,954 GOOD AT. SO HYPOTHESIS HERE, I 1043 00:38:53,954 --> 00:38:56,690 WILL SAY I THINK THIS IS 1044 00:38:56,690 --> 00:38:59,293 SOMEWHAT A GRATIFIED HYPOTHESIS 1045 00:38:59,293 --> 00:39:00,761 IT IS CERTAINLY IN THE 1046 00:39:00,761 --> 00:39:01,862 NEUROMORPHIC FIELD. 1047 00:39:01,862 --> 00:39:02,863 NEUROMORPHIC COMPUTING 1048 00:39:02,863 --> 00:39:05,199 POTENTIALLY HELP US UNDERSTAND 1049 00:39:05,199 --> 00:39:06,967 THINGS THE BRAIN IS ACTUALLY 1050 00:39:06,967 --> 00:39:09,637 GOOD AT BY VIRTUE OF HAVING BEEN 1051 00:39:09,637 --> 00:39:11,238 CONSTRUCTED AT THE SAME 1052 00:39:11,238 --> 00:39:12,439 ARCHITECTURES AND SAME DESIGN 1053 00:39:12,439 --> 00:39:13,574 PRINCIPLES THAT WE BELIEVE THE 1054 00:39:13,574 --> 00:39:18,279 BRAIN HAS. CAN IT IN A SENSE 1055 00:39:18,279 --> 00:39:20,514 NEUROMORPHIC COMPUTING HELP US 1056 00:39:20,514 --> 00:39:21,749 GET SOMETHING BETTER THAN 1057 00:39:21,749 --> 00:39:23,017 PATTERN SEPARATION? SOMETHING A 1058 00:39:23,017 --> 00:39:25,419 LITTLE MORE COMPUTATIONALLY RICH 1059 00:39:25,419 --> 00:39:28,189 AND USEFUL. I WANT TO CONTRAST 1060 00:39:28,189 --> 00:39:34,128 THIS BY SAYING NEUROMORPHIC 1061 00:39:34,128 --> 00:39:35,796 EXCUSING IS NECESSARY USE AI TO 1062 00:39:35,796 --> 00:39:38,032 DO THIS. PART OF THE REASON IS 1063 00:39:38,032 --> 00:39:39,400 THAT ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE 1064 00:39:39,400 --> 00:39:42,369 WHILE POWERFUL AS IT IS, IS NOT 1065 00:39:42,369 --> 00:39:44,738 CONSTRAINED BY PHYSICAL SPACE OR 1066 00:39:44,738 --> 00:39:46,307 BY ENERGY CONSTRAINTS, WE KNOW 1067 00:39:46,307 --> 00:39:47,741 IN BECAUSE WE CAN LOOK AT THE 1068 00:39:47,741 --> 00:39:50,311 ENERGY COST OF TODAY'S AI 1069 00:39:50,311 --> 00:39:52,079 ALGORITHMS IN PRODUCTION. IT IS 1070 00:39:52,079 --> 00:39:54,215 ALWAYS A POSSIBILITY IF I NEED 1071 00:39:54,215 --> 00:39:55,783 NEURAL NETWORK TO DO SOMETHING I 1072 00:39:55,783 --> 00:39:57,685 THROW MORE DATA AND MORE LAYERS 1073 00:39:57,685 --> 00:40:00,321 AND GET IT TO WORK. THAT DOESN'T 1074 00:40:00,321 --> 00:40:02,756 TELL US ANYTHING ABOUT HOW BRAIN 1075 00:40:02,756 --> 00:40:04,858 WORKS BECAUSE I THE BRAIN CAN'T 1076 00:40:04,858 --> 00:40:06,860 SAY I NEED TO LEARN GERMAN, 1077 00:40:06,860 --> 00:40:08,395 GOING THERE NEXT YEAR, ADD A FEW 1078 00:40:08,395 --> 00:40:09,863 MORE LAYERS TO CORTEX. THAT IS 1079 00:40:09,863 --> 00:40:13,033 NOT AN OPTION FOR US. OUR BRAINS 1080 00:40:13,033 --> 00:40:16,570 EXISTED WITH CONSTRAINTS. SO I 1081 00:40:16,570 --> 00:40:19,039 DON'T THINK THE FACT THAT NEURAL 1082 00:40:19,039 --> 00:40:22,076 NETWORKS ARE SUCCESSFUL AT DOING 1083 00:40:22,076 --> 00:40:23,877 COGNITIVE THINGS IS AS USEFUL AS 1084 00:40:23,877 --> 00:40:26,046 WE MIGHT WISH THEY WERE. I THINK 1085 00:40:26,046 --> 00:40:27,548 WE HAVE TO INCLUDE THE 1086 00:40:27,548 --> 00:40:29,350 CONSTRAINT OF EFFICIENCY. THE 1087 00:40:29,350 --> 00:40:33,754 REASON IS, IS BECAUSE IT IS NOT 1088 00:40:33,754 --> 00:40:36,323 AMOUNT OF WORK THAT AN ALGORITHM 1089 00:40:36,323 --> 00:40:37,891 REQUIRES BUT THE AM OF WORK 1090 00:40:37,891 --> 00:40:39,793 UNDER CONSTRAINT, OUR BRAIN HAVE 1091 00:40:39,793 --> 00:40:42,129 TO DEAL WITH THAT, THESE 1092 00:40:42,129 --> 00:40:43,130 NEUROMORPHIC CHIPS HAVE TO DEAL 1093 00:40:43,130 --> 00:40:44,999 WITH THAT. I HAVE A CONCRETE LOW 1094 00:40:44,999 --> 00:40:46,533 POWER DESIGNED LIKE THE BRAIN 1095 00:40:46,533 --> 00:40:47,801 BUT I CAN ONLY FIT SO MUCH ON 1096 00:40:47,801 --> 00:40:50,771 THEM. SO WHAT CAN I DO WITH 1097 00:40:50,771 --> 00:40:53,674 THAT? IF YOU BELIEVE THAT THE 1098 00:40:53,674 --> 00:40:55,409 NEUROMORPHIC CHIPS THAT WE ARE 1099 00:40:55,409 --> 00:40:57,311 DEVELOPING HAVE AT LEAST 1100 00:40:57,311 --> 00:40:58,545 OVERLAPPING SET OF CONSTRAINTS 1101 00:40:58,545 --> 00:41:00,080 THE BRAIN HAS, WE BELIEVE WE 1102 00:41:00,080 --> 00:41:02,149 MIGHT BE ABLE TO ACTUALLY MAKE 1103 00:41:02,149 --> 00:41:04,051 INSIGHTS ABOUT WHAT WE CAN DO. 1104 00:41:04,051 --> 00:41:06,053 VERY QUICKLY, THIS IS WHAT A 1105 00:41:06,053 --> 00:41:08,922 NEUROMORPHIC SYSTEM LOOKS LIKE. 1106 00:41:08,922 --> 00:41:12,559 IF YOU ARE FAMILIAR WITH FIRE 1107 00:41:12,559 --> 00:41:14,695 NEURON IT IS A SIMPLE MODEL OF 1108 00:41:14,695 --> 00:41:18,732 SPIKE NEURON, MOST NEUROMORPHIC 1109 00:41:18,732 --> 00:41:20,668 CHIPS HAVE HUNDREDS OF THESE 1110 00:41:20,668 --> 00:41:22,303 FIRE NEURONS ON INDIVIDUAL 1111 00:41:22,303 --> 00:41:24,171 COMPUTE CORE AND A CHIP HAS FEW 1112 00:41:24,171 --> 00:41:25,339 HUNDRED CORES AND THEN I CAN 1113 00:41:25,339 --> 00:41:27,908 WIRE UP A BUNCH OF CHIPS 1114 00:41:27,908 --> 00:41:31,378 TOGETHTOGETHER. A NICE HIERARCHT 1115 00:41:31,378 --> 00:41:34,782 I'M PROGRAMMING NEURONS TALKING 1116 00:41:34,782 --> 00:41:35,949 TO OTHER NEURONS SYNAPSES. 1117 00:41:35,949 --> 00:41:37,584 SAME AS OUR BRAIN. THE TWO 1118 00:41:37,584 --> 00:41:38,952 FUNCTIONS IN THE REMAINING TEN 1119 00:41:38,952 --> 00:41:40,087 MINUTES I WANT TO SHOW, THAT WE 1120 00:41:40,087 --> 00:41:42,056 HAVE DISCOVERED NEUROMORPHIC 1121 00:41:42,056 --> 00:41:44,992 EXUDING IS HIGHLY EFFICIENT AT. 1122 00:41:44,992 --> 00:41:47,127 THINGS THAT WE DID NOT EXPECT TO 1123 00:41:47,127 --> 00:41:49,596 BE SUCCESSFUL AT. MY DAY JOB AT 1124 00:41:49,596 --> 00:41:51,065 SANDIA IS TO LOOK AT 1125 00:41:51,065 --> 00:41:52,599 NEUROMORPHIC HARDWARE AND SAY 1126 00:41:52,599 --> 00:41:53,934 WHAT CAN THIS DO FOR COMPUTING 1127 00:41:53,934 --> 00:41:57,171 IN GENERAL. SANDIA AS A WHOLE IS 1128 00:41:57,171 --> 00:42:00,641 WORRIED -- DOE IS VERY WORRIED 1129 00:42:00,641 --> 00:42:01,809 ABOUT ENERGY COST ASSOCIATED 1130 00:42:01,809 --> 00:42:03,110 WITH COMPUTING TODAY. SO WHAT 1131 00:42:03,110 --> 00:42:05,612 CAN NEUROMORPHIC COMPUTING 1132 00:42:05,612 --> 00:42:06,213 COEFFICIENTLY? WE HAVE 1133 00:42:06,213 --> 00:42:08,115 DISCOVERED TWO THINGS. ONE IS 1134 00:42:08,115 --> 00:42:09,350 THAT PROBLEMS THAT REQUIRE 1135 00:42:09,350 --> 00:42:11,485 WIDESPREAD SAMPLING YOU MIGHT -- 1136 00:42:11,485 --> 00:42:14,455 OUR BRAINS DO THE SYNAPTIC 1137 00:42:14,455 --> 00:42:15,689 SAMPLING AND PROBLEMS THAT ARE 1138 00:42:15,689 --> 00:42:17,691 SPATIALLY DISTRIBUTED SO 1139 00:42:17,691 --> 00:42:19,059 PHYSICAL SOLUTIONS TO PROBLEMS 1140 00:42:19,059 --> 00:42:20,728 THAT HAVE SPATIAL CONSTRAINTS. 1141 00:42:20,728 --> 00:42:23,464 THE FIRST THING WAS DONE 1142 00:42:23,464 --> 00:42:25,165 MYOPRIMARILY WILLIAM WHO DID THE 1143 00:42:25,165 --> 00:42:27,334 FLY WIRE MAPPING AND DARBY SMITH 1144 00:42:27,334 --> 00:42:30,537 WHO WAS POST DOC NOW STAFF, BOTH 1145 00:42:30,537 --> 00:42:33,073 USED TO BE POST DOCS NOW STAFF 1146 00:42:33,073 --> 00:42:36,276 AT SANDIA MATHEMATICIANS, THEY 1147 00:42:36,276 --> 00:42:37,845 ARE FANTASTIC TO WORK WITH, I 1148 00:42:37,845 --> 00:42:40,848 HIGHLY RECOMMEND IT. I MENTION 1149 00:42:40,848 --> 00:42:42,383 EARLIER THE HURRICANE 1150 00:42:42,383 --> 00:42:43,183 PREDICTION, THIS IS A DIFFERENT 1151 00:42:43,183 --> 00:42:46,787 HURRICANE. BUT OF COURSE THERE 1152 00:42:46,787 --> 00:42:47,855 ARE A LOT OF PROBLEMS IN THE 1153 00:42:47,855 --> 00:42:50,958 WORLD WE CARE ABOUT THAT RELY ON 1154 00:42:50,958 --> 00:42:52,092 UNCERTAINTY TO UNDERSTAND. OUR 1155 00:42:52,092 --> 00:42:53,227 COMPUTERS ARE NOT GOOD DEALING 1156 00:42:53,227 --> 00:42:55,963 WITH UNCERTAINTY, FLIPING A 1157 00:42:55,963 --> 00:42:58,432 TRANSISTER IS A BINARY DISCRETE 1158 00:42:58,432 --> 00:43:00,868 DETERMINISTIC EVENT SO WHAT CAN 1159 00:43:00,868 --> 00:43:03,904 WE MODEL THINGS PROBABILISTIC 1160 00:43:03,904 --> 00:43:06,140 PROBLEMS ON NEUROMORPHIC 1161 00:43:06,140 --> 00:43:07,174 HARDWARE. THIS IS SOMETHING 1162 00:43:07,174 --> 00:43:10,077 PEOPLE WOULD NEVER HAVE GUESSED 1163 00:43:10,077 --> 00:43:11,979 IS POSSIBLE. BUT ABOUT FIVE 1164 00:43:11,979 --> 00:43:14,214 YEARS AGO WE REALIZED THE PAPER 1165 00:43:14,214 --> 00:43:16,717 CAME OUT IN 2022, WE SAW ACTUAL 1166 00:43:16,717 --> 00:43:17,951 NEUROMORPHIC SCALING ADVANTAGE 1167 00:43:17,951 --> 00:43:19,286 FOR MODELING RANDOM WALKS. IF 1168 00:43:19,286 --> 00:43:20,521 YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT A RANDOM 1169 00:43:20,521 --> 00:43:21,989 WALK IS, IMAGINE STOCK PRICE 1170 00:43:21,989 --> 00:43:23,657 JITTERING UP AND DOWN, YOU MAY 1171 00:43:23,657 --> 00:43:25,092 GO UP OVER TIME, YOU KNOW IT 1172 00:43:25,092 --> 00:43:26,527 WILL GO UP EVERY TIME BUT THE 1173 00:43:26,527 --> 00:43:31,398 PATH IT TAKES TO GETS THERE IS 1174 00:43:31,398 --> 00:43:35,402 STOCHASTIC, NOT PRE-DETERMINED. 1175 00:43:35,402 --> 00:43:37,371 SO WONDERING HOW THE MODEL WORKS 1176 00:43:37,371 --> 00:43:38,939 OTHER THAN TO SAY WE WERE ABLE 1177 00:43:38,939 --> 00:43:40,073 TO WIRE UP POPULATIONS OF 1178 00:43:40,073 --> 00:43:43,277 NEURONS IN A WAY THAT REPRESENT 1179 00:43:43,277 --> 00:43:44,545 THE STATE SPACE OVER WHICH 1180 00:43:44,545 --> 00:43:46,513 RANDOM WALK HAS O OCCUR. A MONTE 1181 00:43:46,513 --> 00:43:48,315 CARLO PROCESS EVOLVING OVER TIME 1182 00:43:48,315 --> 00:43:50,417 BASICALLY BE AKIN TO A SPIKE 1183 00:43:50,417 --> 00:43:51,852 MOVING OVER THIS MESH OF 1184 00:43:51,852 --> 00:43:53,587 NEURONS. EVERY RANDOM WALKER IN 1185 00:43:53,587 --> 00:43:55,289 MY MODEL IS A DIFFERENT SPIKE 1186 00:43:55,289 --> 00:43:58,826 MOVING OVER MY CHIP. THAT IS A 1187 00:43:58,826 --> 00:44:00,294 RADICALLY DIFFERENT WAY THINKING 1188 00:44:00,294 --> 00:44:02,062 ABOUT MONTE CARLO SIMULATIONS AN 1189 00:44:02,062 --> 00:44:04,097 COMPUTING AND IT WORKS REALLY 1190 00:44:04,097 --> 00:44:06,099 WELL UNDER AMORPHIC HARDWARE. 1191 00:44:06,099 --> 00:44:09,903 WHAT ESSENTIALLY HAPPENS, MY 1192 00:44:09,903 --> 00:44:12,005 11-YEAR-OLD DID THIS IN A BLEND, 1193 00:44:12,005 --> 00:44:15,008 AMAZES ME, I CAN'T DO THIS IN A 1194 00:44:15,008 --> 00:44:15,943 BLENDER B. EVERY NEURON IN THE 1195 00:44:15,943 --> 00:44:19,580 SYSTEM IS BEHAVING INDEPENDENTLY 1196 00:44:19,580 --> 00:44:21,582 OF EVERY OTHER NEURON, MESH 1197 00:44:21,582 --> 00:44:24,451 POINT BEHAVING INDEPENDENTLY OF 1198 00:44:24,451 --> 00:44:26,687 EVERY OTHER MESH POINT SO THE 1199 00:44:26,687 --> 00:44:28,889 RANDOM WALKS GO IN FULL PERFECT 1200 00:44:28,889 --> 00:44:30,557 PARALLELISM, AND THIS TURNS OUT 1201 00:44:30,557 --> 00:44:32,493 A HUGE ENERGY SAVINGS. WE SAW 1202 00:44:32,493 --> 00:44:35,596 THIS IN OUR BENCHMARKING AT THE 1203 00:44:35,596 --> 00:44:38,365 TIME, YOU SEE THE NUMBER OF 1204 00:44:38,365 --> 00:44:39,600 WALKER PER JEWELS MEASURING 1205 00:44:39,600 --> 00:44:40,734 ENERGY NOT POWER SUBPOENA ORDERS 1206 00:44:40,734 --> 00:44:42,269 OF MAGNITUDE BETTER THAN YOU SEE 1207 00:44:42,269 --> 00:44:45,606 ON CPU AND GPU UNDER AMORPHIC 1208 00:44:45,606 --> 00:44:47,274 HARDWARE SO WENT A LITTLE SLOWER 1209 00:44:47,274 --> 00:44:48,809 ON THE ORIGINAL NEUROMORPHIC 1210 00:44:48,809 --> 00:44:50,611 SYSTEMS THE NEW SYSTEMS ARE ABLE 1211 00:44:50,611 --> 00:44:51,879 TO GO FASTER BUT THE POWER 1212 00:44:51,879 --> 00:44:53,547 ADVANTAGE IS STILL THERE. SO 1213 00:44:53,547 --> 00:44:56,283 THIS IS SAYING THINGS LIKE 1214 00:44:56,283 --> 00:44:59,620 PROBABILISTIC SAMPLING. MONTE 1215 00:44:59,620 --> 00:45:01,321 CARLO BASE YEN INTEREST, REAL 1216 00:45:01,321 --> 00:45:03,156 PROBLEMS THE WORLD NEEDS TO DEAL 1217 00:45:03,156 --> 00:45:05,425 WITH ARE VERY NICE NEUROMORPHIC 1218 00:45:05,425 --> 00:45:07,094 HARD WARE. OUR BRAIN SIMILARLY 1219 00:45:07,094 --> 00:45:10,898 HAVE TO DEAL WITH UNSORETY. SO 1220 00:45:10,898 --> 00:45:12,900 -- UNCERTAINTY. THE SECOND AREA 1221 00:45:12,900 --> 00:45:15,102 IS ALSO WORK WITH MY CURRENT 1222 00:45:15,102 --> 00:45:18,038 POST DOC BRADS THEILMAN WHO DID 1223 00:45:18,038 --> 00:45:20,674 THE GNATS STUFF, WE LOOK AT 1224 00:45:20,674 --> 00:45:22,276 SPATIALLY DISTRIBUTED PHYSICS 1225 00:45:22,276 --> 00:45:25,679 PROBLEM. SO IF YOU DO 1226 00:45:25,679 --> 00:45:27,514 COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS, MANY 1227 00:45:27,514 --> 00:45:30,317 PROBLEMS CAN BE HOE DESCRIBED AS 1228 00:45:30,317 --> 00:45:31,451 PARTIAL EQUATION THAT LOOKS LIKE 1229 00:45:31,451 --> 00:45:33,787 THIS. THE WAY YOU DO THIS 1230 00:45:33,787 --> 00:45:37,357 CLASSICALLY IS USING ELEMENT 1231 00:45:37,357 --> 00:45:39,826 METHODS. IF YOU ARE NOT 1232 00:45:39,826 --> 00:45:41,161 FAMILIAR, IT IS BASICALLY TRYING 1233 00:45:41,161 --> 00:45:42,195 TO UNDERSTAND SOME PHYSICAL 1234 00:45:42,195 --> 00:45:43,664 DYNAMIC LIKE HEAT OR WHATEVER 1235 00:45:43,664 --> 00:45:47,768 OVER SOME SURFACE, EVERY POINT 1236 00:45:47,768 --> 00:45:49,870 ON THAT MESH, MY AREA MODELING 1237 00:45:49,870 --> 00:45:51,772 OVER MESH OR SOMETHING, AT EVERY 1238 00:45:51,772 --> 00:45:53,674 POINT I BASICALLY COMPUTE THE 1239 00:45:53,674 --> 00:45:55,242 PHYSICS AT THAT POINT BASED ON 1240 00:45:55,242 --> 00:45:58,345 THE NEIGHBORING POINTS. THIS IS 1241 00:45:58,345 --> 00:46:00,347 A GOLD STANDARD HOW YOU DO 1242 00:46:00,347 --> 00:46:03,383 THINGS LIKE TURBULENCE MODELING 1243 00:46:03,383 --> 00:46:05,185 OR HEAT ACTIVE DEUCE MODELING SO 1244 00:46:05,185 --> 00:46:06,587 FORTH -- DIFFUSION MODELING. 1245 00:46:06,587 --> 00:46:08,355 THAT'S A LOT OF WORK IN 1246 00:46:08,355 --> 00:46:10,223 SCIENTIFIC LEARNING TO 1247 00:46:10,223 --> 00:46:11,592 APPROXIMATE THIS BUT CAN YOU MAP 1248 00:46:11,592 --> 00:46:14,628 THIS ON TO NEUROMORPHIC CHIPS. 1249 00:46:14,628 --> 00:46:16,196 AGAIN, NO ONE ANYWHERE IN THE 1250 00:46:16,196 --> 00:46:17,698 NEUROMORPHIC FIELD THINKS THIS 1251 00:46:17,698 --> 00:46:20,467 IS POSSIBLE. BUT WE WANTED TO -- 1252 00:46:20,467 --> 00:46:22,636 BASED ON THAT PROBABILISTIC 1253 00:46:22,636 --> 00:46:23,737 RESULT BEFORE CAN YOU USE SOME 1254 00:46:23,737 --> 00:46:25,405 SORT OF SAMPLING APPROACH TO DO 1255 00:46:25,405 --> 00:46:28,842 THIS? AND WHAT BRAD HAD A 1256 00:46:28,842 --> 00:46:30,077 REALIZATION FROM HIS 1257 00:46:30,077 --> 00:46:31,411 NEUROSCIENCE BACKGROUND REALIZED 1258 00:46:31,411 --> 00:46:33,981 IS THAT YOU CAN ACTUALLY -- IF 1259 00:46:33,981 --> 00:46:36,416 YOU HAVE THESE CORTICAL MODELS 1260 00:46:36,416 --> 00:46:38,852 WHERE YOU HAVE CLUSTERS OF 1261 00:46:38,852 --> 00:46:40,654 NEURONS EXCITATORY AND INHIBIT 1262 00:46:40,654 --> 00:46:42,322 POOTORY LOCALIZE OPTSMIZING 1263 00:46:42,322 --> 00:46:44,024 THEMSELVES TO REPRESENTS 1264 00:46:44,024 --> 00:46:45,058 SOMETHING YOU CAN WIRE THOSE UP 1265 00:46:45,058 --> 00:46:48,662 IN A MESH NOT UNLIKE WHAT A FINE 1266 00:46:48,662 --> 00:46:51,431 ELEMENT MESH SHOW AND 1267 00:46:51,431 --> 00:46:52,232 MATHEMATICALLY YOU CAN MAKE 1268 00:46:52,232 --> 00:46:53,433 THOSE RELATIONSHIPS EXPLICIT 1269 00:46:53,433 --> 00:46:55,202 SUCH THAT I CAN TAKE THE PHYSICS 1270 00:46:55,202 --> 00:46:58,305 MODEL THAT COMPUTATIONAL 1271 00:46:58,305 --> 00:47:01,608 PHYSICIST CARES ABOUT, I CAN 1272 00:47:01,608 --> 00:47:04,745 TAKE THAT A MATRIX AND I CAN 1273 00:47:04,745 --> 00:47:06,513 REPRESENT IT AS THE CONNECTIONS 1274 00:47:06,513 --> 00:47:09,583 BETWEEN THESE MESH POINTS YOU 1275 00:47:09,583 --> 00:47:12,319 CAN SEE HERE. THE DETAILS YOU 1276 00:47:12,319 --> 00:47:14,855 CAN GET -- IT CAN GET 1277 00:47:14,855 --> 00:47:16,223 COMPLICATED BUT IT IS NOT 1278 00:47:16,223 --> 00:47:18,258 REQUIRING ANY DYNAMICS OR MATH 1279 00:47:18,258 --> 00:47:19,626 THAT IS NOT SOMETHING 1280 00:47:19,626 --> 00:47:20,427 NEUROSCIENTISTS HAVE BEEN 1281 00:47:20,427 --> 00:47:22,796 LOOKING AT FOR YEARS, IN FACT, 1282 00:47:22,796 --> 00:47:25,932 IT IS RATHER NICELY PARALLEL 1283 00:47:25,932 --> 00:47:28,535 WITH THINGS IN LIKE MORE CONTROL 1284 00:47:28,535 --> 00:47:29,970 PERSPECTIVES HOW CORTICAL 1285 00:47:29,970 --> 00:47:31,872 CIRCUITS MAY WORK. IT SCALES 1286 00:47:31,872 --> 00:47:34,841 VERY NICELY ON THINGS LIKE LOIHI 1287 00:47:34,841 --> 00:47:38,679 2 WHICH WE HAVE BEEN DOING. IF I 1288 00:47:38,679 --> 00:47:40,013 HID THE LABELS IN THE BOTTOM 1289 00:47:40,013 --> 00:47:41,715 THERE YOU WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO 1290 00:47:41,715 --> 00:47:42,983 TELL WHICH WAS NEUROMORPHIC 1291 00:47:42,983 --> 00:47:44,651 SOLUTION AND WHICH THE GROUNDS 1292 00:47:44,651 --> 00:47:46,186 TRUTH SOLUTION. THIS IS 1293 00:47:46,186 --> 00:47:47,320 SOMETHING THAT AGAIN EVERYONE 1294 00:47:47,320 --> 00:47:50,023 THINKS AN AI SOLUTION OR 1295 00:47:50,023 --> 00:47:52,025 AMORPHIC SOLUTION HAS TO BE SOME 1296 00:47:52,025 --> 00:47:53,193 COURSE APPROXIMATION OF WHAT WE 1297 00:47:53,193 --> 00:47:55,696 CAN DO WITH FANCY CALCULATORS 1298 00:47:55,696 --> 00:47:57,831 AND DETERMINISTIC COMPUTING. IT 1299 00:47:57,831 --> 00:47:59,399 DOESN'T HAVE TO BE. TURNS OUT 1300 00:47:59,399 --> 00:48:01,168 THESE NEUROMORPHIC CHIPS USING 1301 00:48:01,168 --> 00:48:04,171 BRAIN INSPIRED ALGORITHMS, USING 1302 00:48:04,171 --> 00:48:06,106 NEURONS AS THE UNDERLYING 1303 00:48:06,106 --> 00:48:07,674 COMPUTE UNITS CAN SOLVE THESE 1304 00:48:07,674 --> 00:48:09,209 PROBLEMS AT LEVELS OF ACCURACY 1305 00:48:09,209 --> 00:48:12,212 AND PRECISION THAT THE 1306 00:48:12,212 --> 00:48:13,380 COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICIST MAY CARE 1307 00:48:13,380 --> 00:48:15,348 ABOUT. IF YOU ARE LIKE CORTICAL 1308 00:48:15,348 --> 00:48:16,550 SYSTEMS NEUROSCIENTIST AND LOOK 1309 00:48:16,550 --> 00:48:18,118 AT THE MASTER PLOT HERE COMING 1310 00:48:18,118 --> 00:48:21,354 OFF THE MODEL, THIS CAN BE DATA 1311 00:48:21,354 --> 00:48:25,659 COMING OFF OF SOME SORT OF 1312 00:48:25,659 --> 00:48:26,560 MULTI-ELECTRODE ARRAY OR 1313 00:48:26,560 --> 00:48:28,361 SOMETHING LIKE THAT. SO THIS WAS 1314 00:48:28,361 --> 00:48:31,398 PRETTY EXCITING BECAUSE IT TELLS 1315 00:48:31,398 --> 00:48:33,934 US THESE ARE PHYSICS PROBLEMS, 1316 00:48:33,934 --> 00:48:37,070 THESE AREN'T BIOLOGY PROBLEMS. 1317 00:48:37,070 --> 00:48:38,839 BUT OUR NEUROMORPHIC HARDWARE 1318 00:48:38,839 --> 00:48:41,675 SEEMS REALLY GOOD AT DOING THIS. 1319 00:48:41,675 --> 00:48:43,643 AND IF YOU STOP AND THINK FOR A 1320 00:48:43,643 --> 00:48:44,845 SECOND, WHAT ARE THESE PROBLEMS 1321 00:48:44,845 --> 00:48:46,146 REALLY DOING? TRYING TO 1322 00:48:46,146 --> 00:48:47,581 UNDERSTAND WHAT THE PHYSICAL 1323 00:48:47,581 --> 00:48:50,717 WORLD IS, BASED ON SOME PERHAPS 1324 00:48:50,717 --> 00:48:52,486 OBSERVATIONS BUT DEAF ANY 1325 00:48:52,486 --> 00:48:54,187 FACTUALLY PRIOR MODELS, AND WANT 1326 00:48:54,187 --> 00:48:55,322 TO MAKE PREDICTIONS OF WHAT IS 1327 00:48:55,322 --> 00:48:57,124 GOING TO HAPPEN? WE HAVE TO DO 1328 00:48:57,124 --> 00:48:58,258 THAT OUR BRAIN VERSUS TO DO THAT 1329 00:48:58,258 --> 00:48:59,559 AND THAT IS A REAL PROBLEM OUR 1330 00:48:59,559 --> 00:49:01,361 BRAINS HAVE TO SOLVE AND HAVE 1331 00:49:01,361 --> 00:49:02,729 TROUBLE SOLVING WHEN THINGS 1332 00:49:02,729 --> 00:49:04,831 START TO GO WRONG. LIKEWISE, THE 1333 00:49:04,831 --> 00:49:07,567 ABILITY TO MAKE DECISIONS, OFTEN 1334 00:49:07,567 --> 00:49:09,069 REQUIRES SAMPLING BUNCH OF 1335 00:49:09,069 --> 00:49:10,737 POTENTIAL OUTCOMES WHICH IS 1336 00:49:10,737 --> 00:49:12,639 SOMETHING THAT MEANS OUR BRAINS 1337 00:49:12,639 --> 00:49:16,209 REALLY NEED TO DO SOME SORT OF 1338 00:49:16,209 --> 00:49:19,980 SAMPLING PROCESS, PROBABILISTIC 1339 00:49:19,980 --> 00:49:21,214 REASONING. BASE YEN REASONING 1340 00:49:21,214 --> 00:49:22,482 IS SOMETHING WE LONG THOUGHT THE 1341 00:49:22,482 --> 00:49:27,687 BRAIN WAS DOING BUT -- P BECAUSE 1342 00:49:27,687 --> 00:49:34,227 YEN. . BECAUSE YEN. BASE YEN. SO 1343 00:49:34,227 --> 00:49:35,395 WHAT I WOULD SAY, MAYBE 1344 00:49:35,395 --> 00:49:36,696 CHALLENGE THE NEUROSCIENCE 1345 00:49:36,696 --> 00:49:38,365 COMMUNITY HERE, IS THAT INSTEAD 1346 00:49:38,365 --> 00:49:40,634 OF THINKING OH I THINK THE BRAIN 1347 00:49:40,634 --> 00:49:42,335 DOES THIS BECAUSE I STUDY 1348 00:49:42,335 --> 00:49:43,136 COGNITION, THIS SEEMS IMPORTANT 1349 00:49:43,136 --> 00:49:44,638 WHAT IS FORMULA FOR THIS, HOW 1350 00:49:44,638 --> 00:49:46,873 DOES THAT MAP TO THE BRAIN, MAKE 1351 00:49:46,873 --> 00:49:48,542 WE CAN GO THE OTHER WAY -- MAYBE 1352 00:49:48,542 --> 00:49:51,745 WE CAN GO THE OTHER WAY AROUND. 1353 00:49:51,745 --> 00:49:53,213 CIRCUITS ARE GOOD AT DOING 1354 00:49:53,213 --> 00:49:55,115 CERTAIN THINGS. IF WE CAN 1355 00:49:55,115 --> 00:49:56,383 UNDERSTAND WHAT THOSE ARE LOOK 1356 00:49:56,383 --> 00:49:57,818 INTO THE BRAIN TO SEE IF IT'S 1357 00:49:57,818 --> 00:49:58,852 SOING UP SOMEWHERE AND THERE'S A 1358 00:49:58,852 --> 00:50:01,288 CASE THERE WAS A BEAUTIFUL PAPER 1359 00:50:01,288 --> 00:50:03,290 OUT OF EUROPE A FEW YEARS AGO 1360 00:50:03,290 --> 00:50:07,060 LOOKING AT RANDOM TRAJECTORIES 1361 00:50:07,060 --> 00:50:09,963 DURING HIPPOEXAMPLE REPLAY SO 1362 00:50:09,963 --> 00:50:11,798 THE REPLAY EVENTS MIGHT BE A 1363 00:50:11,798 --> 00:50:14,434 BROWNIAN SAMPLING. AND THERE'S 1364 00:50:14,434 --> 00:50:15,802 CONTROL MODEL QUITE SIMILAR O 1365 00:50:15,802 --> 00:50:18,371 THE MODELS HERE. SO TO WRAP UP, 1366 00:50:18,371 --> 00:50:20,473 WE HAVE THIS CHALLENGE WHERE WE 1367 00:50:20,473 --> 00:50:22,142 ARE LOOKING AT THE COMPLEXITY OF 1368 00:50:22,142 --> 00:50:23,577 THE BRAIN, THE TIME SCALES AND 1369 00:50:23,577 --> 00:50:25,712 THE SIZE OF THE BRAIN AND THIS 1370 00:50:25,712 --> 00:50:26,980 CHALLENGE OF COMPUTATION THAT WE 1371 00:50:26,980 --> 00:50:28,515 ARE FACED WITH. AND WE DON'T 1372 00:50:28,515 --> 00:50:30,851 NECESSARILY KNOW WHAT TO DO. 1373 00:50:30,851 --> 00:50:32,185 WHAT I BELIEVE IS THAT 1374 00:50:32,185 --> 00:50:33,753 NEUROMORPHIC FIELD IS NOT THE 1375 00:50:33,753 --> 00:50:35,422 ANSWER HERE. WE CHUTE SLEUTHLY 1376 00:50:35,422 --> 00:50:38,091 HAVE TO GET MORE DATA AND WE 1377 00:50:38,091 --> 00:50:39,826 HAVE TO UNDERSTAND MORE 1378 00:50:39,826 --> 00:50:41,328 CONNECTOME WE NEEDS MORE THAN 1379 00:50:41,328 --> 00:50:44,331 CONNECTOMES. BUT I ALSO BELIEVE 1380 00:50:44,331 --> 00:50:48,034 HAVING THIS MORE BRAIN INSPIRED 1381 00:50:48,034 --> 00:50:49,169 COMPUTING CONSTRAINT GETTING 1382 00:50:49,169 --> 00:50:50,971 FROM THIS IDEA WE CAN DO 1383 00:50:50,971 --> 00:50:52,439 EVERYTHING BY JUST HAVING ENOUGH 1384 00:50:52,439 --> 00:50:54,207 LAYERS OF NEURONS ON IT BUT 1385 00:50:54,207 --> 00:50:56,009 RATHER CONSTRAINED TO THE 1386 00:50:56,009 --> 00:50:58,578 PHYSICS OF THIS EMERGING 1387 00:50:58,578 --> 00:51:02,015 HARDWARE, MAY GIVE US A PATH TO 1388 00:51:02,015 --> 00:51:09,723 DO THIS. SUPPOSE TO SAY REALISM 1389 00:51:09,723 --> 00:51:11,658 BUT I BELIEVE WE CAN THEN AS WE 1390 00:51:11,658 --> 00:51:15,528 LEARN MORE FROM BIOLOGY SIDE 1391 00:51:15,528 --> 00:51:16,596 COMPUTE TRAJECTORY AND WE HAD A 1392 00:51:16,596 --> 00:51:19,065 QUESTION AT LUNCH ABOUT HOW 1393 00:51:19,065 --> 00:51:20,433 NEUROMODULATORS END UP UNDER 1394 00:51:20,433 --> 00:51:21,468 AMORPHIC COMPUTING. CERTAINLY 1395 00:51:21,468 --> 00:51:22,802 NO ONE IS THINKING ABOUT THAT IN 1396 00:51:22,802 --> 00:51:25,472 THE NEUROMORPHIC HARDWARE SIDE 1397 00:51:25,472 --> 00:51:26,840 AT DEEP LEVEL BECAUSE WE DON'T 1398 00:51:26,840 --> 00:51:28,541 KNOW ENOUGH ABOUT 1399 00:51:28,541 --> 00:51:29,876 NEUROMODULATORS LIKE SEROTONIN 1400 00:51:29,876 --> 00:51:31,645 TO TELL THEM WHAT THEY NEED. BUT 1401 00:51:31,645 --> 00:51:34,347 I THINK IT IS NOT UNREASONABLE 1402 00:51:34,347 --> 00:51:35,782 THE FIELD IS STILL YOUNG ENOUGH 1403 00:51:35,782 --> 00:51:40,053 WE CAN INFLUENCE IT. WITH THAT, 1404 00:51:40,053 --> 00:51:41,888 I WOULD BE HAPPY TO TAKE ANY 1405 00:51:41,888 --> 00:51:43,456 QUESTIONS, I WOULD LIKE TO FIRST 1406 00:51:43,456 --> 00:51:45,025 THANK -- THIS IS LARGE GROUP OF 1407 00:51:45,025 --> 00:51:47,227 PEOPLE I WORKED WITH OVER THE 1408 00:51:47,227 --> 00:51:48,895 YEARS, FANTASTIC COLLABORATORS, 1409 00:51:48,895 --> 00:51:51,998 EXPERIMENTAL AND COMPUTATIONAL 1410 00:51:51,998 --> 00:51:53,033 MATHEMATICIANS, COMPUTER 1411 00:51:53,033 --> 00:51:56,136 SCIENTISTS, ALL SORTS OF PEOPLE 1412 00:51:56,136 --> 00:51:56,636 THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 1413 00:51:56,636 --> 00:52:02,042 [APPLAUSE] 1414 00:52:02,042 --> 00:52:03,710 >> CERTAINLY ENCOURAGE ANYONE 1415 00:52:03,710 --> 00:52:05,612 HERE TO USE THE MIKES. WE HAVE 1416 00:52:05,612 --> 00:52:07,080 ONE -- MICS. WE HAVE A QUESTION 1417 00:52:07,080 --> 00:52:08,648 ONLINE TO GET STARTED. THE REST 1418 00:52:08,648 --> 00:52:11,318 OF YOU CAN USE YOUR BRAIN AND/OR 1419 00:52:11,318 --> 00:52:12,686 COMPUTER TO THINK OF QUESTIONS. 1420 00:52:12,686 --> 00:52:17,424 SO THIS IS A GOOD ONE. MISTAKES 1421 00:52:17,424 --> 00:52:19,859 ARE INHERENT PROPERTY OF NEURAL 1422 00:52:19,859 --> 00:52:22,329 NETWORKS BASED BIOLOGICAL AND 1423 00:52:22,329 --> 00:52:24,731 ARTIFICIAL SYSTEMS. CAN 1424 00:52:24,731 --> 00:52:27,300 NEURO-SYMBOLIC BASED AI HELP TO 1425 00:52:27,300 --> 00:52:28,969 DECREASE NUMBER OF MISTAKES MADE 1426 00:52:28,969 --> 00:52:32,973 BY AI? 1427 00:52:32,973 --> 00:52:36,076 >> I THINK IT IS POSSIBLE. SO 1428 00:52:36,076 --> 00:52:38,178 NEURO-SYMBOLIC PROCESSES, IT IS 1429 00:52:38,178 --> 00:52:38,878 A LITTLE DIFFERENT THAN HOW I 1430 00:52:38,878 --> 00:52:41,081 WAS DESCRIBING THINGS BUT THE 1431 00:52:41,081 --> 00:52:42,849 IDEA IS THAT WE KNOW THERE ARE 1432 00:52:42,849 --> 00:52:45,418 TWO TYPES OF AI WHERE YOU HAVE 1433 00:52:45,418 --> 00:52:48,521 CLASSIC SYMBOLIC MODELS EXPERTS 1434 00:52:48,521 --> 00:52:49,422 CONSTRUCT AND NEURAL NETWORKS 1435 00:52:49,422 --> 00:52:51,224 THAT ARE POWERFUL AND COMBINE 1436 00:52:51,224 --> 00:52:53,159 THE TWO. AND THE HOPE IS IS THAT 1437 00:52:53,159 --> 00:52:55,495 THIS MIGHT PROVIDE 1438 00:52:55,495 --> 00:52:56,363 EXPLAINABILITY AND MORE ACCURATE 1439 00:52:56,363 --> 00:53:03,570 MODELING. I MIGHT TWIST THE 1440 00:53:03,570 --> 00:53:06,039 QUESTION AND SAY OUR BRAINS OUR 1441 00:53:06,039 --> 00:53:09,142 NEURAL CIRCUITS MAKE MISTAKES 1442 00:53:09,142 --> 00:53:10,810 FOR A REASON MANY TIMES, THAT'S 1443 00:53:10,810 --> 00:53:15,548 HOW WE LEARN. OUR BRAINS ARE 1444 00:53:15,548 --> 00:53:17,417 LIFE LONG COMPUTERS, NOT 1445 00:53:17,417 --> 00:53:19,652 INSTANTANEOUS COMPUTERS. WE 1446 00:53:19,652 --> 00:53:21,421 DEVELOP OUR NEURAL NETWORKS AS 1447 00:53:21,421 --> 00:53:23,890 WE HAD A TRAINING PERIODS, THEN 1448 00:53:23,890 --> 00:53:25,592 WE VALIDATED THEM, DEPLOY THEM 1449 00:53:25,592 --> 00:53:26,559 AND IDEAL I WILL THEY ARE NOT 1450 00:53:26,559 --> 00:53:28,395 CHANGING MUCH, OUR BRAINS HAVE 1451 00:53:28,395 --> 00:53:30,430 TO CHANGE CONTINUOUSLY, ADAPT TO 1452 00:53:30,430 --> 00:53:32,232 BOTH CHANGES INTERNAL AS WELL AS 1453 00:53:32,232 --> 00:53:33,800 EXTERNAL. PART OF WAY THEY ADAPT 1454 00:53:33,800 --> 00:53:36,336 IS THROUGH THESE MISTAKES. SO I 1455 00:53:36,336 --> 00:53:37,904 WOULD SAY IT IS NOT ABOUT 1456 00:53:37,904 --> 00:53:39,472 REDUCING ERRORS, I KNOW THAT'S 1457 00:53:39,472 --> 00:53:43,143 HOW WE QUANTIFY AI PERFORMANCE 1458 00:53:43,143 --> 00:53:46,379 BUT RATHER MAKING SURE THAT WHEN 1459 00:53:46,379 --> 00:53:49,883 THE SYSTEM EXPLORES POSSIBLE 1460 00:53:49,883 --> 00:53:52,452 ALTERNATIVES SCENARIOS. SAMPLING 1461 00:53:52,452 --> 00:53:54,020 IF YOU WILL, THE WAY I DESCRIBE 1462 00:53:54,020 --> 00:53:56,823 IT, THAT ACTUALLY DOESN'T THROW 1463 00:53:56,823 --> 00:54:00,727 THINGS COMPLETELY AWRY, IT 1464 00:54:00,727 --> 00:54:01,661 DOESN'T CRASH THE CAR IF YOU 1465 00:54:01,661 --> 00:54:04,030 WILL IF YOU ARE LIKE 1466 00:54:04,030 --> 00:54:05,265 SELF-DRIVING CAR, YOU DON'T WANT 1467 00:54:05,265 --> 00:54:06,733 THAT, BUT YOU WANT TO EXPLORE -- 1468 00:54:06,733 --> 00:54:08,768 YOU HAVE TO MAKE MISTAKES, THAT 1469 00:54:08,768 --> 00:54:11,838 IS WHAT COGNITION IS. SO I THINK 1470 00:54:11,838 --> 00:54:16,209 A LITTLE BIT OF EXPLORATION AND 1471 00:54:16,209 --> 00:54:17,744 MISTAKES IS GOOD FOR A SYSTEM. I 1472 00:54:17,744 --> 00:54:25,018 HOPE THAT ANSWERS THE QUESTION. 1473 00:54:25,018 --> 00:54:25,418 >> 1474 00:54:25,418 --> 00:54:27,954 >> THANKS, REALLY NICE TALK. SO 1475 00:54:27,954 --> 00:54:31,257 YOU SHOWED AT SOME POINT THE 1476 00:54:31,257 --> 00:54:32,392 SIMULATION YOU IMPLEMENTED FROM 1477 00:54:32,392 --> 00:54:34,027 THE FLY WIRE DATA. AND ONE THING 1478 00:54:34,027 --> 00:54:35,528 THAT WAS IMPRESSIVE IS IT WAS -- 1479 00:54:35,528 --> 00:54:37,097 LOOKED LIKE REALLY LARGE NUMBER 1480 00:54:37,097 --> 00:54:38,932 OF NEURONS. THE FLY, THE FLY 1481 00:54:38,932 --> 00:54:40,800 DATA IS LARGE NUMBER. SO I'M 1482 00:54:40,800 --> 00:54:43,036 INTERESTED IN TRYING TO -- 1483 00:54:43,036 --> 00:54:44,904 WONDERING WHAT ARCHITECTURE THAT 1484 00:54:44,904 --> 00:54:46,506 USES. ARE YOU IMPLEMENTING THE 1485 00:54:46,506 --> 00:54:48,274 SORT OF ANALOG INTEGRATION 1486 00:54:48,274 --> 00:54:51,478 DIRECTLY ON CHIP? AND THEN I 1487 00:54:51,478 --> 00:54:52,378 GUESS MORE BROADLY I'M 1488 00:54:52,378 --> 00:54:56,549 INTERESTED IN WHERE YOU SEE THE 1489 00:54:56,549 --> 00:54:57,684 LARGE-SCALE OF NEUROMORPHIC 1490 00:54:57,684 --> 00:54:59,786 COMPUTING GOING. IS ONE OF THE 1491 00:54:59,786 --> 00:55:01,654 -- I DON'T KNOW PEOPLE SAY THAT 1492 00:55:01,654 --> 00:55:06,192 OUR BRAIN WORKS BETTER THAN CHAT 1493 00:55:06,192 --> 00:55:09,696 GTP ON LIKE HAMBURGER EVERY FEW 1494 00:55:09,696 --> 00:55:12,132 HOURS AND LESS POWER THAN AI USE 1495 00:55:12,132 --> 00:55:13,099 BUS ONE OF THE THINGS WE ARE 1496 00:55:13,099 --> 00:55:15,068 THINKING IN THE FUTURE, IS BEING 1497 00:55:15,068 --> 00:55:17,137 ABLE TO DO REALLY LARGE SCALE 1498 00:55:17,137 --> 00:55:19,906 COMPUTATION IN THIS ANALOG 1499 00:55:19,906 --> 00:55:21,174 FORMAT USING RELATIVELY LOW 1500 00:55:21,174 --> 00:55:25,845 POWER. SO WONDERING WHERE YOU 1501 00:55:25,845 --> 00:55:27,280 THINK SCALE IS GOING AND BEING 1502 00:55:27,280 --> 00:55:28,848 ABLE TO SCALE TO LARGE ENOUGH 1503 00:55:28,848 --> 00:55:29,983 UNITS AND HOW WILL THAT HAPPEN? 1504 00:55:29,983 --> 00:55:32,552 >> YEAH. SO IF I FORGET THE 1505 00:55:32,552 --> 00:55:34,554 SECOND QUESTION REMIND ME. 1506 00:55:34,554 --> 00:55:36,422 QUICKLY ON THE FLY WIRE WORKS. 1507 00:55:36,422 --> 00:55:39,792 SO THIS IS HOT OFF THE PRESS. WE 1508 00:55:39,792 --> 00:55:40,894 HADN'T FULLY TESTED EVERYTHING 1509 00:55:40,894 --> 00:55:43,429 ON IT. THE PAPER JUST CAME OUT A 1510 00:55:43,429 --> 00:55:45,865 FEW WEEKS AGO. BUT WHAT WAS NICE 1511 00:55:45,865 --> 00:55:47,667 IS THE PAPER THAT WE ARE BASED 1512 00:55:47,667 --> 00:55:49,269 ON IS NOT JUST THE CONNECTOME, 1513 00:55:49,269 --> 00:55:51,304 IT IS ACTUALLY A PAPER DESCRIBED 1514 00:55:51,304 --> 00:55:52,972 THE COMPUTATIONAL MODEL FROM THE 1515 00:55:52,972 --> 00:55:57,410 CONNECTOME. THAT MODEL WAS 1516 00:55:57,410 --> 00:55:59,312 WRITTEN IN BRIAN WHICH IS A 1517 00:55:59,312 --> 00:56:00,980 SPIKING NEURAL NETWORK MODELING 1518 00:56:00,980 --> 00:56:04,384 TOOL WHICH EFFECTIVELY IS DOING 1519 00:56:04,384 --> 00:56:05,952 LEAKY INTEGRATED FIRE NEURONS. 1520 00:56:05,952 --> 00:56:07,554 THEY ARE BIT MORE COMPLEX BUT 1521 00:56:07,554 --> 00:56:10,156 NOT TREMENDOUSLY SO. SO WE HAVE 1522 00:56:10,156 --> 00:56:13,092 -- WHAT WAS NICE IS THAT MODEL 1523 00:56:13,092 --> 00:56:14,827 BASICALLY WE CAN TAKE DIRECTLY 1524 00:56:14,827 --> 00:56:15,862 FROM THE CODE AND TRANSLATE IT 1525 00:56:15,862 --> 00:56:20,934 ON TO WHAT THE CORE NEURAL 1526 00:56:20,934 --> 00:56:22,168 DIGITAL NEURAL MODELS ARE THAT 1527 00:56:22,168 --> 00:56:25,071 ARE IMPLEMENTED BY THE LOIHI 1528 00:56:25,071 --> 00:56:26,839 TOOL CHIP. SO THEY ARE NOT 1529 00:56:26,839 --> 00:56:29,842 ANALOG, IT IS FULLY DIGITAL, IT 1530 00:56:29,842 --> 00:56:31,511 IS BASICALLY THE WAY THAT CHIP 1531 00:56:31,511 --> 00:56:34,414 WORKS IS THAT IT HAS 100 SOME 1532 00:56:34,414 --> 00:56:35,648 ODD CORES THAT ARE EACH CAPABLE 1533 00:56:35,648 --> 00:56:37,016 OF MODELING ABOUT A THOUSAND 1534 00:56:37,016 --> 00:56:40,520 NEURONS EACH. IN PRACTICE YOU 1535 00:56:40,520 --> 00:56:44,290 GET A FEW HUNDRED NEURONS EACH 1536 00:56:44,290 --> 00:56:47,093 CORE. SO IT WAS MORE OR LESS JIG 1537 00:56:47,093 --> 00:56:48,861 SAW PUZZLE. WE WANT TO TAKE THAT 1538 00:56:48,861 --> 00:56:50,830 MODEL THAT HAD 125,000 NEURONS, 1539 00:56:50,830 --> 00:56:53,766 SPLIT IT UP INTO PIECES AN 1540 00:56:53,766 --> 00:56:55,268 DISTRIBUTE OVER THE LOIHI SYSTEM 1541 00:56:55,268 --> 00:56:57,604 THAT WE HAVE. SO THAT WASN'T -- 1542 00:56:57,604 --> 00:56:59,806 WHAT IS NICE IS, WE DIDN'T DO 1543 00:56:59,806 --> 00:57:01,774 THE WORK. I DON'T WANT TO TAKE 1544 00:57:01,774 --> 00:57:03,142 CREDIT FOR THAT. THAT WAS THE 1545 00:57:03,142 --> 00:57:05,111 WORK OF THE FLY WIRE TEAM MAKING 1546 00:57:05,111 --> 00:57:07,747 THAT MODEL WE SHOW YOU CAN PUT 1547 00:57:07,747 --> 00:57:13,620 THAT TO NEUROMODULATOR. THE 1548 00:57:13,620 --> 00:57:15,088 SECOND IS WHERE IS THIS GOING TO 1549 00:57:15,088 --> 00:57:16,689 SCALE AND WHERE IS IT GOING TO 1550 00:57:16,689 --> 00:57:18,391 GO? DEPENDS ON IF YOU WANT TO DO 1551 00:57:18,391 --> 00:57:20,159 MORE BRAIN SIMULATION STUFF. OR 1552 00:57:20,159 --> 00:57:25,031 IF YOU WANT TO GO THIS AI ROUTE 1553 00:57:25,031 --> 00:57:28,468 I DON'T -- I THINK THE BRAIN 1554 00:57:28,468 --> 00:57:30,169 SIMULATION SIDE WE WILL HAVE A 1555 00:57:30,169 --> 00:57:32,472 PACKET. THERE'S ENGINEERING 1556 00:57:32,472 --> 00:57:33,873 CONSTRAINTS, NUMBER OF SYNAPSES 1557 00:57:33,873 --> 00:57:35,742 PER NEURON IS BOUND BY LOCAL 1558 00:57:35,742 --> 00:57:39,279 MEMORY AVAILABLE PER CORE, THINK 1559 00:57:39,279 --> 00:57:44,951 ABOUT SOMETHING LIKE LOCUST 1560 00:57:44,951 --> 00:57:46,653 ARCURELIUS NOREPINEPHRINE 1561 00:57:46,653 --> 00:57:47,854 NEURON, THAT IS A BILLION 1562 00:57:47,854 --> 00:57:48,855 NEURONS IN THE BRAIN. IN THAT 1563 00:57:48,855 --> 00:57:50,089 STRUCTURE WE HAVE TO FIGURE HOW 1564 00:57:50,089 --> 00:57:51,958 TO MAP THAT TO IF PHYSICAL 1565 00:57:51,958 --> 00:57:53,426 HARDWARE BUT THAT IS GOING TO 1566 00:57:53,426 --> 00:57:55,528 TAKE WORK, IT IS POSSIBLE AND I 1567 00:57:55,528 --> 00:57:59,832 THINK WE CAN PROBABLY GET TO 1568 00:57:59,832 --> 00:58:01,534 REALISTIC SIZE, WE HAVE A 1569 00:58:01,534 --> 00:58:02,535 BILLION NEURON SYSTEM TODAY THAT 1570 00:58:02,535 --> 00:58:04,203 WE ARE TRYING TO FIGURE HOW TO 1571 00:58:04,203 --> 00:58:08,408 BUILD THINGS UP ON SO 1572 00:58:08,408 --> 00:58:10,943 LIMITATION, THERE ARE 1573 00:58:10,943 --> 00:58:12,045 LIMITATIONS BUT NOTHING 1574 00:58:12,045 --> 00:58:13,813 FUNDAMENTAL THERE. WHEN IT COMES 1575 00:58:13,813 --> 00:58:15,915 TO LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS I WOULD 1576 00:58:15,915 --> 00:58:18,785 SAY THE UNDERLYING STRUCTURE OF 1577 00:58:18,785 --> 00:58:20,853 THOSE MODELS IS NOT VERY 1578 00:58:20,853 --> 00:58:23,089 BIOLOGICBIOLOGICAL. IT MIGHT INE 1579 00:58:23,089 --> 00:58:26,259 THINGS THAT ARE NEURONS AND 1580 00:58:26,259 --> 00:58:28,361 WEIGHTS BUT THOSE MODELS IN MANY 1581 00:58:28,361 --> 00:58:30,396 WAYS ARE NOT GOOD FITS FOR 1582 00:58:30,396 --> 00:58:31,764 NEUROMORPHIC HARD WARE. I WOULD 1583 00:58:31,764 --> 00:58:34,300 SAY -- PEOPLE ARE TRYING TO DO 1584 00:58:34,300 --> 00:58:37,236 THIS, I'M CHEERING THEM ON, I'M 1585 00:58:37,236 --> 00:58:38,604 NOT INCREDIBLY OPTIMISTIC THAT 1586 00:58:38,604 --> 00:58:42,775 WE ARE GOING TO PUTS CHAT GPT ON 1587 00:58:42,775 --> 00:58:46,579 TO LOIHI 2 ANY TIME SOON. WHAT I 1588 00:58:46,579 --> 00:58:49,048 THINK WE MIGHT BE ABLE TO DO IS 1589 00:58:49,048 --> 00:58:51,017 THIS SEE WHAT THESE CHIPS ARE 1590 00:58:51,017 --> 00:58:53,219 REALLY GOOD AT, MIGHT HELP 1591 00:58:53,219 --> 00:58:55,722 CONSTRAIN US TO THINK ABOUT WHAT 1592 00:58:55,722 --> 00:58:59,759 A DIFFERENT FORMULATION OF A 1593 00:58:59,759 --> 00:59:01,394 LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL SHOULD BE, 1594 00:59:01,394 --> 00:59:02,662 DIFFERENT FORMULATION OF LARGE 1595 00:59:02,662 --> 00:59:03,963 LANGUAGE MODEL SHOULD BE AND 1596 00:59:03,963 --> 00:59:06,132 THAT MIGHT HELP US REDESCRIBE IN 1597 00:59:06,132 --> 00:59:07,800 A WAY THAT IS ENERGY EFFICIENT 1598 00:59:07,800 --> 00:59:09,569 WHICH IS A VERY INTERESTING 1599 00:59:09,569 --> 00:59:11,504 SCIENTIFIC QUESTION BUT IT IS -- 1600 00:59:11,504 --> 00:59:13,039 I DON'T HAVE AN IMMEDIATE 1601 00:59:13,039 --> 00:59:16,876 ANSWER. THANKS. 1602 00:59:16,876 --> 00:59:23,549 >> WE HAVE ONE MORE QUESTION. 1603 00:59:23,549 --> 00:59:25,985 >> SO AS YOU SAID WE LEARN FROM 1604 00:59:25,985 --> 00:59:29,522 OUR ERRORS. WHEN DO YOU THINK 1605 00:59:29,522 --> 00:59:31,557 YOU WILL HAVE NEUROMORPHIC 1606 00:59:31,557 --> 00:59:34,093 HARDWARE THAT WILL LOOK 1607 00:59:34,093 --> 00:59:37,263 SOMETHING LIKE CHAT GPT AND 1608 00:59:37,263 --> 00:59:38,297 REPROGRAM ITSELF? 1609 00:59:38,297 --> 00:59:41,634 >> IT IS A FUN QUESTION. I THINK 1610 00:59:41,634 --> 00:59:45,138 IF IT IS FULLY PROGRAMMING 1611 00:59:45,138 --> 00:59:47,306 ITSELF I DON'T KNOW IF WE ARE 1612 00:59:47,306 --> 00:59:48,674 ANYWHERE CLOSE TO THAT. I DO 1613 00:59:48,674 --> 00:59:50,443 THINK WE WANT TO HAVE LEARNING. 1614 00:59:50,443 --> 00:59:51,778 IN FACT THESE CHIPS DO HAVE THE 1615 00:59:51,778 --> 00:59:53,179 ABILITY TO LEARN. WE ARE -- NONE 1616 00:59:53,179 --> 00:59:56,215 OF THE ALGORITHMS REALLY USE 1617 00:59:56,215 --> 00:59:58,785 THAT. WE MIGHT HAVE CHIPS OR 1618 00:59:58,785 --> 01:00:03,189 MIGHT HAVE ALGORITHMS, NOT TOO 1619 01:00:03,189 --> 01:00:05,391 DISTANCE FUTURE THAT ARE 1620 01:00:05,391 --> 01:00:08,628 HOPEFULLY VERY BRAIN INSPIRED 1621 01:00:08,628 --> 01:00:09,629 THAT ARE INTRINSICALLY LEARNING 1622 01:00:09,629 --> 01:00:11,164 SO THE MODELS PUT ON TO THE 1623 01:00:11,164 --> 01:00:14,534 CHIPS WILL ADAM DEPARTMENT 1624 01:00:14,534 --> 01:00:15,501 THEMSELVES OVER TIME. SO NOT 1625 01:00:15,501 --> 01:00:20,072 LEARNING THE SAME AS FPGA 1626 01:00:20,072 --> 01:00:20,973 RECONFIGURES THEMSELVES. THEY 1627 01:00:20,973 --> 01:00:23,509 ARE SIMILAR TO FPGAs IN TERMS 1628 01:00:23,509 --> 01:00:24,744 HOW WE PROGRAM AND THINK ABOUT 1629 01:00:24,744 --> 01:00:25,645 THEM SO WHAT YOU ARE SUGGESTING 1630 01:00:25,645 --> 01:00:28,047 IS NOT IMPOSSIBLE BUT JUST NOW 1631 01:00:28,047 --> 01:00:30,750 HOW WE ARE REALLY THINKING ABOUT 1632 01:00:30,750 --> 01:00:30,917 IT. 1633 01:00:30,917 --> 01:00:32,385 >> SO NEUROMORPHIC PART, YOU 1634 01:00:32,385 --> 01:00:33,152 HAVE SPIKING, RIGHT? 1635 01:00:33,152 --> 01:00:33,953 >> YES. 1636 01:00:33,953 --> 01:00:36,589 >> BUT JUST THIS MONDAY I HEARD 1637 01:00:36,589 --> 01:00:38,591 A TALK BY SOMEONE WHO USED THE 1638 01:00:38,591 --> 01:00:43,162 CONNECTOME FROM THE FLY WIRE AND 1639 01:00:43,162 --> 01:00:46,466 IN THAT SHE SHOWED THAT THERE'S 1640 01:00:46,466 --> 01:00:51,804 A SINGLE SPIKE THAT IS INDUCED 1641 01:00:51,804 --> 01:00:54,941 THAT LEADS TO A SPECIFIC 1642 01:00:54,941 --> 01:00:57,743 BEHAVIOR IN THE FLY. SO THAT IS 1643 01:00:57,743 --> 01:01:04,250 VERY FAR FROM PROBABLEI PROBABIO 1644 01:01:04,250 --> 01:01:06,452 CURIOUS YEAH IT CAN SOLVE RANDOM 1645 01:01:06,452 --> 01:01:08,354 WALKS, A LOT OF CENTRAL LIMITS 1646 01:01:08,354 --> 01:01:12,558 HERE IS REALLY HELPFUL BUT FOR 1647 01:01:12,558 --> 01:01:18,998 SUCH SINGLE SPIKE EVENTS, THAT'S 1648 01:01:18,998 --> 01:01:19,499 HARD TO GET. 1649 01:01:19,499 --> 01:01:24,604 >> I WILL SAY THESE CHIPS ARE 1650 01:01:24,604 --> 01:01:26,405 RATHER CONVENTIONAL UNDER THE 1651 01:01:26,405 --> 01:01:29,509 HOOD. THESE ARE DIGITAL CMOS 1652 01:01:29,509 --> 01:01:31,511 ELECTRONICS. IF I WANT TO TURN 1653 01:01:31,511 --> 01:01:33,112 OFF NOISE I CAN TURN OFF NOISE 1654 01:01:33,112 --> 01:01:37,016 ON THE CURRENT HARDWARE. I DO 1655 01:01:37,016 --> 01:01:39,352 THINK THAT THE FLY BRAIN AND 1656 01:01:39,352 --> 01:01:41,254 MAMMALIAN BRAINS ARE DIFFERENT 1657 01:01:41,254 --> 01:01:43,723 IN TERMS OF -- I'M NOT AWARE IN 1658 01:01:43,723 --> 01:01:45,591 THE MAMMALIAN BRAINS WHERE YOU 1659 01:01:45,591 --> 01:01:46,959 HAVE SINGLE NEURONS THAT HAVE 1660 01:01:46,959 --> 01:01:49,428 FULLY DETERMINISTIC BEHAVIOR THE 1661 01:01:49,428 --> 01:01:52,131 WAY THAT PERFECTLY WELL DEFINED 1662 01:01:52,131 --> 01:01:55,034 CONNECTOMES LIKE THE FLY 1663 01:01:55,034 --> 01:01:58,237 CONNECTOME IS VERY STRUCTURED. 1664 01:01:58,237 --> 01:01:59,739 WHEREAS OUR BRAINS ARE MUCH MORE 1665 01:01:59,739 --> 01:02:01,974 RANDOMLY CONNECTED. I DO THINK 1666 01:02:01,974 --> 01:02:03,309 THERE IS FUNDAMENTAL QUESTION 1667 01:02:03,309 --> 01:02:05,444 BUT THOSE ARE MORE COMPUTATIONAL 1668 01:02:05,444 --> 01:02:07,113 NEUROSCIENCE QUESTIONS. WE CAN 1669 01:02:07,113 --> 01:02:08,114 PROBABLY IMPLEMENT EITHER 1670 01:02:08,114 --> 01:02:11,450 VERSION IN NEUROMORPHIC. BUT 1671 01:02:11,450 --> 01:02:14,020 THAT SOFTER NEURON IS THE H 1 -- 1672 01:02:14,020 --> 01:02:15,488 I CAN REMEMBER, IT'S BEEN 1673 01:02:15,488 --> 01:02:18,491 STUDIED A WHILE IN FLIES. IT 1674 01:02:18,491 --> 01:02:20,593 WILL BE INTERESTING TO LOOK IN 1675 01:02:20,593 --> 01:02:21,827 -- WE HAVEN'T PLAY WITH THE 1676 01:02:21,827 --> 01:02:23,296 MODEL TOO MUCH TO BE HONEST BUT 1677 01:02:23,296 --> 01:02:23,996 TO SEE HOW THAT WORKS. 1678 01:02:23,996 --> 01:02:27,500 >> THANK YOU. 1679 01:02:27,500 --> 01:02:29,702 >> JUST QUICKLY, GREAT TALK, 1680 01:02:29,702 --> 01:02:31,404 GREAT TO SEE THE FLY WIRE 1681 01:02:31,404 --> 01:02:34,407 IMPLEMENT SOD QUICKLY. THE BRAIN 1682 01:02:34,407 --> 01:02:36,509 INITIATIVE IS SELECTING 1683 01:02:36,509 --> 01:02:37,977 COLLECTING OTHER TYPES OF DATA 1684 01:02:37,977 --> 01:02:41,180 INCLUDING CELL TYPE DATA DATA. E 1685 01:02:41,180 --> 01:02:42,315 RELEASED A WHOLE MOUSE BRAIN 1686 01:02:42,315 --> 01:02:43,983 CELL TYPE ATLAS, MULTIPLE 1687 01:02:43,983 --> 01:02:45,885 THOUSANDS OF DIFFERENT TYPES OF 1688 01:02:45,885 --> 01:02:49,221 CELLS. SO THE CONNECTOME IS NOT 1689 01:02:49,221 --> 01:02:51,657 JUST HOMOGENOUS CONNECTION 1690 01:02:51,657 --> 01:02:52,892 GRAPH, IT IS CONNECTIONS BETWEEN 1691 01:02:52,892 --> 01:02:53,993 DIFFERENT TYPES OF CELLS WITH 1692 01:02:53,993 --> 01:02:55,561 DIFFERENT RESPONSES, DIFFERENT 1693 01:02:55,561 --> 01:02:57,029 RESPONSES TO NEUROMODULATORS, 1694 01:02:57,029 --> 01:02:58,831 ALL THAT COMPLEXITY YOU ARE 1695 01:02:58,831 --> 01:03:01,100 TALKING ABOUT. WHAT DO YOU SEE 1696 01:03:01,100 --> 01:03:02,768 AS FAR AS WHETHER -- WELL, HOW 1697 01:03:02,768 --> 01:03:04,870 CAN YOU INTEGRATE THAT KIND OF 1698 01:03:04,870 --> 01:03:06,872 DATA ACROSS DIFFERENT SCALES, 1699 01:03:06,872 --> 01:03:08,341 CELL TYPE CONNECTIVITY AND HOW 1700 01:03:08,341 --> 01:03:11,744 DOES THAT RELATE TO THE MAJOR 1701 01:03:11,744 --> 01:03:13,879 OBSTACLES YOU SEE MAJOR ERROR UP 1702 01:03:13,879 --> 01:03:16,349 TO THE RIGHT OF THAT COMPLEXITY 1703 01:03:16,349 --> 01:03:20,119 VERSUS SIZE PLOT. AND HOW IT 1704 01:03:20,119 --> 01:03:20,620 RELATES? 1705 01:03:20,620 --> 01:03:24,290 >> I LOVE THAT QUESTION BECAUSE 1706 01:03:24,290 --> 01:03:28,361 I -- PUT THIS IN MY ORIGINAL 1707 01:03:28,361 --> 01:03:30,663 DENTE MODELING STUFF, 1708 01:03:30,663 --> 01:03:31,998 HETEROGENEITY IS FUNDAMENTAL HOW 1709 01:03:31,998 --> 01:03:33,599 THE BRAIN FUNCTIONS AND CRITICAL 1710 01:03:33,599 --> 01:03:35,434 HOW DISEASE INTERACTS WITH 1711 01:03:35,434 --> 01:03:37,436 BRAIN. I IT IS NOT WHAT 1712 01:03:37,436 --> 01:03:40,640 NEUROMORPHIC COMPUTING IS -- WE 1713 01:03:40,640 --> 01:03:42,108 HAVE DONE A LOT OF NEUROMORPHIC 1714 01:03:42,108 --> 01:03:44,110 BUT A LOT OF NEUROMORPHIC 1715 01:03:44,110 --> 01:03:46,112 SYSTEMS CANNED HANDLE THAT, BUT 1716 01:03:46,112 --> 01:03:47,913 JUST HAVEN'T DONE IT YET. 1717 01:03:47,913 --> 01:03:50,683 SOMETHING GPUs ARE TERRIBLE 1718 01:03:50,683 --> 01:03:52,685 HETEROGENEITY THAT'S PLACE 1719 01:03:52,685 --> 01:03:54,887 NEUROMORPHIC HAS ADVANTAGE BUT 1720 01:03:54,887 --> 01:03:56,022 THERE'S REAL WORK THAT WILL BE 1721 01:03:56,022 --> 01:03:57,990 NEEDED TO DIVE INTO SOME OF THIS 1722 01:03:57,990 --> 01:04:00,893 DATA AND START TO REALLY KICK 1723 01:04:00,893 --> 01:04:03,229 THE TIRES ON WHAT WE CAN DO SO A 1724 01:04:03,229 --> 01:04:05,798 FANTASTIC DIRECTION TO GO. 1725 01:04:05,798 --> 01:04:08,467 >> THANK YOU SO MUCH, BRAD, FOR 1726 01:04:08,467 --> 01:04:10,469 TELLING US ABOUT HOW 1727 01:04:10,469 --> 01:04:11,270 NEUROMORPHIC CAN HELP US 1728 01:04:11,270 --> 01:04:13,539 UNDERSTAND NEUROSCIENCE AND 1729 01:04:13,539 --> 01:04:14,907 THERE IS PA WALS RECEPTION RIGHT 1730 01:04:14,907 --> 01:04:17,576 NOW. SO LET'S GIVE A HAND TO OUR 1731 01:04:17,576 --> 01:04:27,576 SPARE.