What You Are Too Afraid to Ask About Artificial Intelligence (Part II): Neuroscience

Along with the advancements in pure machine learning research, we have done many steps ahead toward a greater comprehension of the brain mechanisms. Although much has still to be understood, we have nowadays a slightly better overview of the brain processes, and this might help to foster the development of an AGI. It seems clear that try to fully mimic the human brain is not a feasible approach, and is not even the correct one. However, drawing inspiration from how the brain works is a completely different story, and the study of neuroscience could both stimulate the creation of new algorithms and architectures, as well as validate the use of current machine learning research toward a formation of an AGI. More in detail, according to Numenta's researchers AI should be inspired to the human neocortex.