Short Course Description
This year - we will read the book a brief history of intelligence by M. Bennett
the course will be held by zoom
The students will present chapters in the book according to the following order:
1?2 Foundations of Evolution & Single-Cells Limits of Silicon vs. Biological Neural Networks Introduction & Ch. 1 (part 1)
3?4 Breakthrough 1: Bilataria Sensory-Motor Steering Hardcoded Robotics & Reactive Automations Ch. 1 (part 2 & 3)
5?6 Breakthrough 2: Basal Ganglia & Value Circuits Reinforcement Learning Algorithms (RL) Ch. 2 & Ch. 3
7?8 Breakthrough 3: Neocortex & Spatial Mapping Generative World Models & Advanced Planning Ch. 4
9?10 Breakthrough 4: Primate Social Brains & Deception Multi-Agent Game Theory & Human-AI Alignment Ch. 5
11?12 Breakthrough 5: Language & Symbol Stacking Large Language Models (LLMs) & Transformers Ch. 6
13?14 The Synthesis: The "Skipped Steps" Phenomenon Neuromorphic Engineering & Embodied AGI Path Conclusion & Epilogue
Full syllabus is to be published
