Does the Brain do Gradient Descent? Konrad Kording

In this talk, we investigate what deep learning and the human brain have in common with the help of Professor Konrad Kording! We tried to discuss on what the answer to "Does the brain do gradient descent?" could be.

Konrad Kording runs his lab at the University of Pennsylvania. Konrad is interested in the question of how the brain solves the credit assignment problem and similarly how we should assign credit in the real world (through causality). In extension of this main thrust he is interested in applications of causality in biomedical research. Konrad has trained as student at ETH Zurich with Peter Konig, as postdoc at UCL London with Daniel Wolpert and at MIT with Josh Tenenbaum. After a decade at Northwestern University, he is now PIK professor at UPenn.