Weishun Zhong, Member in the School of Natural Sciences, uses tools from statistical physics to study the brain and AI. "Although these two might appear very different at first glance," he states, "when zoomed out and abstracted away, they are both just networks of basic units called neurons."
From the data, you have this remnant of a real object that you want to resurrect. Before you can start to do that, the first thing you need to know is, is it really coming from such and such an object? Are there some good tests or signatures for that?
How do we navigate the vast amount of data at our disposal? How
do we choose a movie to watch, out of the 75,000 movies available
on Netflix? Or a new book to read, among the 800,000 listed on
Amazon? Or which news articles to read, out of the...
