David and I discuss the latest efforts he and his Elemental Cognition team have made to create machines that can understand stories the way humans can and do. The long term vision is to create what David calls "thought partners", which are virtual assistants that can learn and synthesize a massive amount of information for us when we need that information for whatever project we're working on. We also discuss the nature of understanding, language, the role of the biological sciences for AI, and more.
Kanaka and I discuss a few different ways she uses recurrent neural networks to understand how brains give rise to behaviors. We talk about...
When a waiter hands me the bill, how do I know whether to pay it myself or let my date pay? On this episode,...
Support the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. You may know my guest as the co-founder of Neuromatch, the excellent...
