Brain Inspired

Neuroscience and artificial intelligence work better together. Brain inspired is a celebration and exploration of the ideas driving our progress to understand intelligence. I interview experts about their work at the interface of neuroscience, artificial ...more

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May 20, 2019 01:11:03
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BI 035 Tim Behrens: Abstracting & Generalizing Knowledge, & Human Replay

Show notes: This is the first in a series of episodes where I interview keynote speakers at the upcoming Cognitive Computational Neuroscience conference in...

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May 08, 2019 01:18:36
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BI 034 Tony Zador: How DNA and Evolution Can Inform AI

Show notes: Tony’s lab site, where there are links to his auditory decision making work and connectome work we discuss. Here are a few...

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April 29, 2019 01:06:05
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BI 033 Federico Turkheimer: Weak Versus Strong Emergence

Show Notes: Federico’s website.Federico’s papers we discuss: Conflicting emergences. Weak vs. strong emergence for the modelling of brain functionFrom homeostasis to behavior: balanced activity...

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April 19, 2019 01:15:44
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BI 032 Rafal Bogacz: Back-Propagation in Brains

Show notes: Visit Rafal’s Lab Website. Rafal’s papers we discuss: Theories of Error Back-Propagation in the Brain. An Approximation of the Error Backpropagation Algorithm...

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April 12, 2019 01:44:47
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BI 031 Francisco de Sousa Webber: Natural Language Understanding

Businessportrait Francisco Webber Cortical.ioThe white paper we discuss: Semantic Folding Theory And its Application in Semantic Fingerprinting. A nice talk Francisco gave: Semantic fingerprinting:...

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March 27, 2019 01:04:40
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BI 030 Jay McClelland: Mathematical Reasoning and PDP

Jay's homepage at Stanford.Implementing mathematical reasoning in machines:The video lecture.The paper.Parallel Distributed Processing by Rumelhart and McClelland.Complimentary Learning Systems Theory and Its Recent Update.Episode...

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