It's funny to see this on HN, because I currently have a copy of one of Dr. Poggio's papers in front of me. I've got to say, from what I've read so far I've gotten more excited by his group's approach than any other's I've seen. If you are mathematically inclined and interested in AI, I highly recommend reading through some of his group's papers, which are available on their site[1]. For those of you commenting that we don't have any theory on how the brain does its magic, this new initiative should excite you because this group is actually approaching the problem from a far more rigorous theoretical viewpoint than before. Specifically, their theory of neurons storing both sample images and common transformations on them fits rather elegantly with what we know about the brain, and seems like a promising route to matching humans' ability to "learn" a new object from just one instance of it.[1]: http://cbcl.mit.edu/publications/index-pubs.html
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