Figuring Out the Algorithms of Intelligence

Data science, and knowledge discovery, are among the most "brain-like" operations that a company does, and its practitioners have a unique vantage point into the utility of artificial intelligence. With the emergence of deep learning now upending AI, it is worth exploring how this powerful class of techniques relates to knowledge and understanding, using our own brain as a gold standard for how information is stored for synthesis and insight. Is there a general "process" by which data can be turned into knowledge, or a "rule" for learning rules? Most neuroscientists think so, and so do deep learning researchers. They comprise two search parties, looking for the self-organizing logic that is the magic key for turning data into knowledge.