"So, yes it's important to understand how a neuron works and a lot of neurophysiologists might complain that models of the neurons that the AI people are cooking up aren’t accurate enough. Well, that might be, but no amount of detailed understanding of an individual neuron or even how neurons get interconnected I think will be sufficient to have a good explanation of how it is that we do what we do. We have to have some higher level things and there are people working on that. But, some of it, I think, will get developed by those very people who have one foot in artificial intelligence and one foot in neuroscience to say, "Ah, the analogy to these high level programs is such and such to the way the brain does this." And they will invent concepts that will then help us understand the brain better."
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Nils John Nilsson
Nils John Nilsson (February 6, 1933 – April 23, 2019) was an American computer scientist. He was one of the founding researchers in the discipline of artificial intelligence. He was the first Kumagai Professor of Engineering in computer science at Stanford University from 1991 until his retirement. He is particularly known for his contributions to search, planning, knowledge representation, and robotics
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