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I speak with Tom Griffiths about his “resource-rational framework”, inspired by Herb Simon's bounded rationality and Stuart Russel’s bounded optimality concepts. The resource-rational framework illuminates how the constraints of optimizing our available cognition can help us understand what algorithms our brains use to get things done, and can serve as a bridge between Marr’s computational, algorithmic, and implementation levels of understanding. We also talk cognitive prostheses, artificial general intelligence, consciousness, and more.
Mazviita and I discuss the growing divide between prediction and understanding as neuroscience models and deep learning networks become bigger and more complex. She...
Thomas and I talk about what happens in the brain’s visual system when you see something versus imagine it. He uses generative encoding and...
Jackie and Bob discuss their research and thinking about curiosity. Jackie’s background is studying decision making and attention, recording neurons in nonhuman primates during...
