BI 010 Adam Marblestone: Brain Cost Functions

Brain Inspired

Sep 20 2018 | 01:04:46

00:00 / 01:04:46

Show Notes

Mentioned in the show

Adam’s Website.
Follow him on Twitter.
He made Technology Review’s 35 Innovators Under 35.
The paper we discuss:
- Toward an Integration of DeepLearning and Neuroscience
Some of the peripheral things we discussed:
- Cortical microcircuits: here’s an example paper.
- Autoencoders are unsupervised learning methods to reconstruct their input.
- A nice introduction to Generative Adversarial Networks.
- Marvin Minsky’s classic Society of Mind.
Some of his talks online:
- A Billion-Year-Old Information Technology.
- What sets the exponent of neuroscience progress?

Other Episodes

Episode 0

May 20, 2026 • 01:46:32

BI 238 James Harrison: Hypnosis as Mental Foraging

Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. James Harrison is a clinical hypnotist, and author of a...

Episode 0

August 16, 2020 • 01:22:05

BI 081 Pieter Roelfsema: Brain-propagation

Pieter and I discuss his ongoing quest to figure out how the brain implements learning that solves the credit assignment problem, like backpropagation does...

Episode 0

December 17, 2025 • 01:15:08

BI 227 Decoding Memories: Aspirational Neuroscience 2025

Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. The Transmitter is an online publication that aims to deliver...