Cognitive Pathology Simulation: A Shortcut to Strong AI? -- Science for All

Let me take you on a hypothetical journey through some hypothetical future research in neuroscience that could potentially shorten the path to strong artificial intelligence. By "strong" I mean "human level machine intelligence." We'll start by looking at functional networks in the brain and their cognitive fingerprints. Then, we'll review some of the flexible new techniques in artificial intelligence that can observe and reason about the world, while opining on video captioning systems. Finally, we'll end our hypothetical journey, combining the neural pathology of cognition with synthetic reasoning to create a pathologically human bot.