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Multiscale computation and dynamic attention in biological and artificial intelligence

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Badman, Ryan Paul, Hills, Thomas Trenholm and Akaishi, Rei (2020) Multiscale computation and dynamic attention in biological and artificial intelligence. Brain sciences, 10 (6). 396. doi:10.3390/brainsci10060396

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/brainsci10060396

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Abstract

Biological and artificial intelligence (AI) are often defined by their capacity to achieve a hierarchy of short-term and long-term goals that require incorporating information over time and space at both local and global scales. More advanced forms of this capacity involve the adaptive modulation of integration across scales, which resolve computational inefficiency and explore-exploit dilemmas at the same time. Research in neuroscience and AI have both made progress towards understanding architectures that achieve this. Insight into biological computations come from phenomena such as decision inertia, habit formation, information search, risky choices and foraging. Across these domains, the brain is equipped with mechanisms (such as the dorsal anterior cingulate and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex) that can represent and modulate across scales, both with top-down control processes and by local to global consolidation as information progresses from sensory to prefrontal areas. Paralleling these biological architectures, progress in AI is marked by innovations in dynamic multiscale modulation, moving from recurrent and convolutional neural networks—with fixed scalings—to attention, transformers, dynamic convolutions, and consciousness priors—which modulate scale to input and increase scale breadth. The use and development of these multiscale innovations in robotic agents, game AI, and natural language processing (NLP) are pushing the boundaries of AI achievements. By juxtaposing biological and artificial intelligence, the present work underscores the critical importance of multiscale processing to general intelligence, as well as highlighting innovations and differences between the future of biological and artificial intelligence.

Item Type: Journal Article
Subjects: B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology
Q Science > Q Science (General)
Q Science > QP Physiology
Divisions: Faculty of Science > Psychology
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Artificial intelligence, Decision making -- Data processing, Computational neuroscience, Prefrontal cortex
Journal or Publication Title: Brain sciences
Publisher: MDPI
ISSN: 2076-3425
Official Date: 20 June 2020
Dates:
DateEvent
20 June 2020Published
17 June 2020Accepted
Date of first compliant deposit: 26 June 2020
Volume: 10
Number: 6
Article Number: 396
DOI: 10.3390/brainsci10060396
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Restricted or Subscription Access
RIOXX Funder/Project Grant:
Project/Grant IDRIOXX Funder NameFunder ID
FellowshipAlan Turing Institutehttp://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100012338
WM160074Royal Societyhttp://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000288
LP-3009219Toyota Foundationhttp://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100009584

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