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MA: Fachverband Magnetismus

MA 19: PhD Focus Session: Symposium on "Magnetism - A Potential Platform for Big Data?" (joint session MA/O/AKjDPG)

MA 19.1: Invited Talk

Friday, October 1, 2021, 13:30–14:00, H5

"Neuromorphic Computing": A Productive Contradiction in Terms — •Herbert Jaeger — Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (NL) Faculty of Science and Engineering - CogniGron

The term "computing" has a specific, firm, powerful, traditional meaning -- condensed in the paradigm of Turing computability (TC). A core aspect of TC is the perfectly reliable composition of perfectly identifiable symbolic tokens into complex, hierarchical symbolic structures. But all which is novel and promising and original in "neuromorphic" information processing leads away from such perfect symbolic compositionality. Apparently new formal conceptions of "computing" would be most welcome (and a new term for it, too). In my talk I will carve out a number of concrete aspects that separate neuromorphic information processing from symbolic computing - some of them being classical topics in the philosophy of AI, others having more recently emerged from technological progress in non-digital hardware.