Why Machines Need to Dream

The ingenious neurobiology of mammalian sleep has been mathematically modeled to streamline A.I. memory and storage capacity

Karen Emslie
OneZero
Published in
5 min readJun 17, 2019

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Illustrations: Ana Kova

DDreams are, for the most part, delightful. As we sleep, visual and audio fragments combine into nonsensical snippets and epic narratives. Loosely recalled moments merge with vivid, imagined scenes; we interact…

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Karen Emslie
OneZero

Location-independent journalist and essayist. Stories in Wired, National Geographic (digital), The Atlantic, SmithsonianMag, Aeon, GOOD, Huck, and more.