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BI 095 Chris Summerfield and Sam Gershman: Neuro for AI?
It’s generally agreed machine learning and AI provide neuroscience with tools for analysis and theoretical principles to test in brains, but there is less...
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BI 094 Alison Gopnik: Child-Inspired AI
Alison and I discuss her work to accelerate learning and thus improve AI by studying how children learn, as Alan Turing suggested in his...
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BI 093 Dileep George: Inference in Brain Microcircuits
Dileep and I discuss his theoretical account of how the thalamus and cortex work together to implement visual inference. We talked previously about his...
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BI 092 Russ Poldrack: Cognitive Ontologies
Russ and I discuss cognitive ontologies - the "parts" of the mind and their relations - as an ongoing dilemma of how to map...
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BI 091 Carsen Stringer: Understanding 40,000 Neurons
Carsen and I discuss how she uses 2-photon calcium imaging data from over 10,000 neurons to understand the information processing of such large neural...
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BI 090 Chris Eliasmith: Building the Human Brain
Chris and I discuss his Spaun large scale model of the human brain (Semantic Pointer Architecture Unified Network), as detailed in his book How...