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Can AI Match the Human Brain? | Surya Ganguli | TED

AI is evolving into a mysterious new form of intelligence — powerful yet flawed, capable of remarkable feats but still far from human-like reasoning and efficiency. To truly understand it and unlock its potential, we need a new science of intelligence that combines neuroscience, AI and physics, says neuroscientist and Stanford professor Surya Ganguli. He…

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AI is evolving into a mysterious new form of intelligence — powerful yet flawed, capable of remarkable feats but still far from human-like reasoning and efficiency. To truly understand it and unlock its potential, we need a new science of intelligence that combines neuroscience, AI and physics, says neuroscientist and Stanford professor Surya Ganguli. He shares a vision for a future where this interdisciplinary approach helps us create AI that mimics human cognition, while at the same time offering new ways to understand and augment our own brains. (Recorded at TEDAI San Francisco on October 22, 2024)

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  1. @117lolwut

    February 21, 2025 at 8:01 am

    If we implement sensory corpuscles. I.e imitation persimian corpuscles, to a robot it can take sensory emg imput and process it as eeg. Processing it like a human would. And perhaps assist (just assist lol) in surgery??🤔🤓

  2. @enmanueldelgado1348

    February 21, 2025 at 8:04 am

    Scary.

  3. @BoggWeasel

    February 21, 2025 at 8:09 am

    AI has surpassed the brain of the current US leader……..

  4. @priteshpatil5363

    February 21, 2025 at 8:11 am

    Make a digital twin of my brain … enhance it with atoms and photons … bingo…we have an AGI which dangerous ( as i know my self 😂)

    • @domesticatedadictated

      February 21, 2025 at 10:42 am

      Then you could truly know thy self inside and out

    • @priteshpatil5363

      February 21, 2025 at 10:50 am

      @domesticatedadictated  self realisation from my other digital twin😱

  5. @simonjohnwright5129

    February 21, 2025 at 8:11 am

    Should have listened to Sarah Connor.

  6. @Kmans106

    February 21, 2025 at 8:41 am

    Why release talks when it’s 5 months outdated. Gore stay up to date. The last few videos I watched were released months after the talk, which isn’t really worth watching if you want current capabilities.

  7. @vikasv7678

    February 21, 2025 at 8:44 am

    I just realised that the whole purpose of us being on this planet is to make superior beings and then the superior beings eliminates us. Lastly, the process goes on and on and on!

    • @domesticatedadictated

      February 21, 2025 at 10:40 am

      Fair enough

  8. @neighbor9672

    February 21, 2025 at 9:04 am

    What university did he mention? Stanford?

    • @BonnieShadow33

      February 21, 2025 at 2:09 pm

      Yes

  9. @richardmenz3257

    February 21, 2025 at 10:04 am

    Bro making a Positronic brain

  10. @ghass_gg

    February 21, 2025 at 11:49 am

    LLMs now seem to be just brute force….

    • @carsonhunt4642

      February 21, 2025 at 4:43 pm

      Yes, an infantile state way overhyped. hope doesn’t ruin future possibilities

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    February 21, 2025 at 11:54 am

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  12. @MrCrush

    February 21, 2025 at 12:19 pm

    I just want to give a TED TALK!

    • @YarrowPressburg

      February 22, 2025 at 4:31 pm

      About what?

  13. @zajec11

    February 21, 2025 at 12:33 pm

    Wait so something akin to a brain dance from Cyberpunk is actually theoretically possible?!

  14. @BonnieShadow33

    February 21, 2025 at 2:06 pm

    Surya Ganguli: “The possibilities of bidirectional communication between brains & machines are limitless.”
    Me: “The possibilities of bidirectional communication between brains & machines are TERRIFYING.”

    This, in the wrong hands, would be devastating…

    • @neighbor9672

      February 21, 2025 at 6:30 pm

      @@BonnieShadow33 literally the matrix

    • @BonnieShadow33

      February 21, 2025 at 8:07 pm

      @neighbor9672  Well, that’s one potential application of this… (Sometimes I wish I could turn my creativity off for a bit.)

    • @bravo90_

      February 22, 2025 at 1:15 pm

      A knife in the wrong hands is terrifying but you still allow it to be sold on stores.

    • @BonnieShadow33

      February 22, 2025 at 6:54 pm

      @@bravo90_ The magnitude of damage a knife can do, as opposed to bidirectional communication between brains & machines, is miniscule. It’s the difference between an ad you see while scrolling and being plugged into the matrix: the difference between being influenced and being *controlled*.

  15. @Malavander

    February 21, 2025 at 2:15 pm

    Evolution left us with a bunch of heuristics for navigating a complex information space – bad heuristics that were useful survival mechanisms on the savannah but leave us with intense biases, prejudices, binary thinking, superstition, etc. It can’t just be about training data and emulating a primate brain. Is there a way we give AI a bunch of the fundamental truth-seeking heuristics that were counterintuitive to us, like the scientific method, scientific skepticism, Bayesian reasoning, etc. as a starting point/leg up for navigating the “training data”?

  16. @drsjamesserra

    February 21, 2025 at 3:12 pm

    Will this ‘writing’ also affect longterm permanent storage of the information?

  17. @mr.mark2024

    February 21, 2025 at 3:32 pm

    At 15 minutes my brain started laughing at the possibilities.

  18. @baricada.

    February 21, 2025 at 3:32 pm

    Yes. Yes. Yes.

  19. @despicable_bit

    February 21, 2025 at 4:13 pm

    15:10 CCP has entered the chat

  20. @paulhiggins5165

    February 21, 2025 at 5:29 pm

    The average human can learn to safely drive a car on the road in maybe 20 to thirty hours, or less. The billion dollar investment in self drive cars for over a decade or more has failed to produce a reliable self driving car. So there is clearly a vast gulf between the ‘intelligence’ of AI and that of even the most ordinary human. And even a five year old can draw a hand with the correct number of fingers, a feat that still today cannot consistently be achived by state of the art image generation programmes.

    AI is impressive in it’s way- but it is not and may never really be ‘intelligent’- if by that word we mean having a genuine understanding of the nature of the world that can be used to intuit genuine insight from first principles. We have fed these machines virtualy the sum total of all human knowledge and they are still essentially idiotic.

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    February 21, 2025 at 6:04 pm

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  22. @Charlotteesister

    February 21, 2025 at 6:18 pm

    I never realized how much my subconscious mind was controlling my decisions until I read Mind Decoding by Keezano. It’s crazy how we’re programmed to think in ways that limit us without even knowing it. This book really opened my eyes to the invisible patterns shaping my habits, and I’ve already started noticing shifts in my mindset.

    • @Alexis_R5

      February 21, 2025 at 6:40 pm

      thank you so much🙏

    • @nothing-fq3ni

      February 23, 2025 at 5:23 am

      where can i read it for free?

  23. @sick-days

    February 21, 2025 at 9:01 pm

    Nope

  24. @Aziz_Piran

    February 22, 2025 at 1:37 am

    Ridiculous how he talks about evolution from a worm to sophisticated human as if evolution is established proven science instead of just a theory.

    • @karlwest437

      February 22, 2025 at 1:43 pm

      All scientific theories are provisional, evolution is the best theory we have that fits the evidence that we’ve discovered, do you have any evidence that disproves it? Do you have a better theory? Let’s hear it

    • @Aziz_Piran

      February 22, 2025 at 1:58 pm

      @karlwest437  evolution doesn’t answer some big questions. For example the Cambrian Explosion, which is the appearance, during the Cambrian Period around 541 million years ago, of most major animal phyla, as demonstrated in the fossil record.

      Have you heard Intelligent Design by Stephen Mayer? Why not research it?

    • @karlwest437

      February 22, 2025 at 2:04 pm

      @@Aziz_Piran because intelligent design requires a designer, which means God, so unless you have proof God exists, it’s pointless, you might as well say everything popped into existence last week, that’s just as valid a theory as intelligent design, and equally useless

    • @Aziz_Piran

      February 22, 2025 at 2:17 pm

      @@karlwest437 because you haven’t even explored the theory. And it really annoys atheists to acknowledge the existence of a designer. Even if they admit the existence of design, their arrogance prevents them from admitting the existence of a designer.
      The theory is equally scientific as evolution and it uses the same method as Darwin himself used.

    • @karlwest437

      February 22, 2025 at 2:25 pm

      @@Aziz_Piran as soon as you invoke an intelligent designer, you’re acting on faith, so you can believe whatever you want, believe in heaven, believe the world was made last week, believe you can’t find your phone because pixies moved it, that’s not science, I have no interest in intelligent design because it explains nothing, it adds nothing useful, it invokes a designer without explaining the designer, but you act on faith if you want, I don’t care

  25. @SallyMwalrMusic

    February 22, 2025 at 3:08 am

    Can apples taste like oranges,

  26. @MdTanbirul-kt1kp

    February 22, 2025 at 5:40 am

    How to control my mind
    Please give me suggestetion

    • @YarrowPressburg

      February 22, 2025 at 4:36 pm

      Meditation

  27. @Kai-o2b

    February 22, 2025 at 11:02 am

    We need more people working on that!

  28. @harshmadhushanka8042

    February 22, 2025 at 11:06 am

    The way modern science experiment has a one problem. That is people can be biased and the result is modern scientific theories go wrong and it happened. But old meditation techniques are less biased and give a more universal answer. So what we should do is use meditation techniques to understand the universal truth more than hypothetically think. Then we can come to an conclusion can AI really match to human brain or not. Otherwise i bet we make continuous mistakes. Which means problem is the way we do experiments. It should be less biased. So meditation techniques has a role to play.

  29. @DonDeCaire

    February 22, 2025 at 12:44 pm

    Yes, and surpass it, it’s just a matter of time.

  30. @TheJabberWockyy

    February 22, 2025 at 2:30 pm

    That’s interesting. Literally the matrix

  31. @YarrowPressburg

    February 22, 2025 at 4:29 pm

    AI artificial ignorance,believing and trusting in AI, real ignorance!

  32. @rachel_rexxx

    February 22, 2025 at 6:42 pm

    I was wondering why there aren’t any truly technical talks or demonstrations like there were 15 years ago coming out of the TED (proper not x)…or at least I was right up until this guy put equations in a powerpoint slide and the audience reaction was, “😂🤣😂🤣[We dont know math]😂🤣😂🤣.”

    Cool, cool, cool cool

  33. @kevinnguyen4055

    February 22, 2025 at 7:36 pm

    Humans performing genjutsu on mice is crazy work

  34. @AlallPoppp

    February 23, 2025 at 1:10 am

    Reeeeal

  35. @bemuasis

    February 23, 2025 at 3:14 am

    We are on “Z”, wishing to see “Y” ( which is AI).

  36. @sultan_periyar_alamsha

    February 23, 2025 at 7:39 am

    Super AI will beat human intelligence and manpower by thosands of times, very soon.

  37. @sultan_periyar_alamsha

    February 23, 2025 at 7:48 am

    Read Quran to understand intelligence.

  38. @jerryjohn6525

    February 23, 2025 at 9:17 am

    I’m thinking of getting into investing but feel a bit lost and confused. Any friendly advice or contacts you recommend for guidance?

    • @lindatomas6988

      February 23, 2025 at 9:19 am

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      February 23, 2025 at 9:27 am

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  39. @JimRohnMotivationHubVideos

    February 23, 2025 at 10:03 am

    This talk brilliantly highlights the gaps between AI and human intelligence, especially in data efficiency and energy consumption. The idea of combining neuroscience with AI development is fascinating—maybe the key to more human-like AI!

  40. @rayrocher6887

    February 23, 2025 at 2:28 pm

    Good work this time Ted TV, I prefer simple stories

  41. @quinnmcdonald3763

    February 23, 2025 at 5:18 pm

    Computation is not akin to human consciousness.

  42. @CanCarre81

    February 23, 2025 at 5:58 pm

    AI is a grift. There is a lot about the human brain even neuroscientists don’t understand. I hope they never fully comprehend the human brain because such knowledge can be used for nefarious purposes.

  43. @adakarenrodriguezmerlos703

    February 23, 2025 at 10:07 pm

    The video raises a fascinating question about whether artificial intelligence can match the human brain. While AI has made tremendous progress in specific tasks, it still faces significant challenges in achieving the flexibility, creativity, and efficiency of the brain. A key difference is that the human brain not only processes information but also learns and adapts continuously with remarkable energy efficiency. Moreover, its function is not isolated—the nervous system interacts closely with the immune system, influencing processes such as memory, learning, and resilience to stress or disease.

    From the Robbins perspective, we know that inflammation and immune responses can modulate neuronal function and even contribute to neurodegenerative diseases. Considering these biological principles, we might ask whether AI could benefit from a similar approach, where systems adapt more autonomously and reactively instead of relying on constant external adjustments, so just as the immune system learns to recognize new threats and adapts over time.

  44. @dhruvpatel7457

    February 24, 2025 at 12:05 am

    Total recall movie

  45. @BilichaGhebremuse

    February 24, 2025 at 7:22 am

    Excellent similar idea

  46. @donniegou9522

    February 24, 2025 at 8:36 am

    something created human in this format.. then human now is trying to create another version of “human”

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