{"id":32264,"date":"2016-11-28T18:48:46","date_gmt":"2016-11-29T02:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/researchers-may-have-uncovered-an-algorithm-that-explains-intelligence"},"modified":"2017-06-04T09:02:06","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T16:02:06","slug":"researchers-may-have-uncovered-an-algorithm-that-explains-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/researchers-may-have-uncovered-an-algorithm-that-explains-intelligence","title":{"rendered":"Researchers may have uncovered an algorithm that explains intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-may-have-uncovered-an-algorithm-that-explains-intelligence.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What if a simple algorithm were all it took to program tomorrow\u2019s artificial intelligence to think like humans?<\/p>\n<p>According to a paper published in the journal <a href=\"http:\/\/journal.frontiersin.org\/article\/10.3389\/fnsys.2016.00095\/full\" target=\"_blank\">Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience<\/a>, it may be that easy \u2014 or difficult. Are you a glass-half-full or half-empty kind of person?<\/p>\n<p>Researchers behind the theory presented experimental evidence for the Theory of Connectivity \u2014 the theory that all of the brains processes are interconnected (massive oversimplification alert) \u2014 \u201cthat a simple mathematical logic underlies brain computation.\u201d Simply put, an algorithm could map how the brain processes information. The painfully-long research paper describes groups of similar neurons forming multiple attachments meant to handle basic ideas or information. These groupings form what researchers call \u201cfunctional connectivity motifs\u201d (FCM), which are responsible for every possible combination of ideas.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/thenextweb.com\/artificial-intelligence\/2016\/11\/29\/researchers-may-uncovered-algorithm-explains-intelligence\/\">http:\/\/thenextweb.com\/artificial-intelligence\/2016\/11\/29\/res...elligence\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What if a simple algorithm were all it took to program tomorrow\u2019s artificial intelligence to think like humans? According to a paper published in the journal Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, it may be that easy \u2014 or difficult. Are you a glass-half-full or half-empty kind of person? Researchers behind the theory presented experimental evidence for [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,2229,47,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-science","category-mathematics","category-neuroscience","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32264"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59639,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32264\/revisions\/59639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}