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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January 25, 2019 01:46:16
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BI 025 John Krakauer: Understanding Cognition

Show notes BLAM (Brain, Learning, Animation, and Movement) Lab homepage: http://blam-lab.org/ BLAM on Twitter: @blamlab Papers we discuss: Neuroscience Needs Behavior: Correcting a Reductionist...

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January 15, 2019 01:09:27
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BI 024 Tim Behrens: Cognitive Maps

Show notes: Tim’s Neuroscience homepage: Follow Tim on Twitter: @behrenstim. Edward Tolman’s cognitive maps work: Cognitive maps in rats and men. Place Cells and...

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December 27, 2018 01:04:05
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BI 023 Marcel van Gerven: Mind Decoding with GANs

Show notes: Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour Artificial Cognitive Systems on Twitter. Artificial Cognitive Systems research group. The paper we discuss: Generative...

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December 18, 2018 00:59:22
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BI 022 Melanie Mitchell: Complexity, and AI Shortcomings

Show notes: Follow Melanie on Twitter: @MelMitchell1. Learn more about what she does at her homepage. Here is her New York Times Op-Ed about...

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December 11, 2018 01:19:39
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BI 021 Matt Botvinick: Neuroscience and AI at DeepMind

      Show notes: DeepMind. The papers we discuss: Neuroscience-Inspired Artificial Intelligence. A nice summary of the meta-reinforcement learning work. Learning to reinforcement learn. Prefrontal cortex...

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November 29, 2018 01:09:04
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BI 020 Anna Wexler: Stimulate Your Brain?

Show notes: Anna’s website: annawexler.com. Follow Anna on Twitter: @anna_wexler. Check out her documentary Unorthodox. The papers we discuss: Recurrent themes in the history...

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