Dan’s Stanford Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory:

The 2 papers we discuss

Performance-optimized hierarchical models predict neural responses in higher visual cortex

Learning to Play with Intrinsically-Motivated Self-Aware Agents

ImageNet as one of the most important things to stimulate research in AI, developed by these folks.

Ventral visual stream (as opposed to the Dorsal stream).

Retinotopy

Convolutional neural networks were inspired by Kunihiko Fukushima’s Neocognitron

2 modern of approaches to solve the ImageNet database:

Google’s NASNet architecture, with about 12 layers

Microsoft’s super deep ResNet.

Object permanence and some video examples

The distinction between the intrinsic motivation of Dan and colleagues’ AI agent and the reinforcement learning motivation of the OpenAI 5 team