Brain Inspired

Support the show  to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community . Check out my free video series about what's missing in AI and Neuroscience Panayiota Poirazi runs the Poirazi Lab at the FORTH Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, and Yiota loves dendrites, those branching tree-like structures sticking out of all your neurons, and she thinks you should love dendrit...

Support the show  to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community . Check out my free video series about what's missing in AI and Neuroscience Nick Enfield is a professor of linguistics at the University of Sydney. In this episode we discuss topics in his most recent book, Language vs. Reality: Why Language Is Good for Lawyers and Bad for Scientists . A central question in the b...

Check out my free video series about what's missing in AI and Neuroscience Support the show  to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community . Jeffrey Bowers is a psychologist and professor at the University of Bristol. As you know, many of my previous guests are in the business of comparing brain activity to the activity of units in artificial neural network models, when humans...

Support the show  to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community . Check out my free video series about what's missing in AI and Neuroscience Gary Lupyan runs the Lupyan Lab at University of Wisconsin, Madison, where he studies how language and cognition are related. In some ways, this is a continuation of the conversation I had last episode with Ellie Pavlick , in that we&nbsp...

Support the show  to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community . Check out my free video series about what's missing in AI and Neuroscience Ellie Pavlick runs her Language Understanding and Representation Lab at Brown University, where she studies lots of topics related to language. In AI, large language models, sometimes called foundation models, are all the rage these days,...

Support the show  to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community . Check out my free video series about what's missing in AI and Neuroscience Earl Miller runs the Miller Lab at MIT, where he studies how our brains carry out our executive functions, like working memory, attention, and decision-making. In particular he is interested in the role of the prefrontal cortex and how it...

Support the show  to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community . Check out my free video series about what's missing in AI and Neuroscience Hugo Spiers runs the Spiers Lab at University College London. In general Hugo is interested in understanding spatial cognition, like navigation, in relation to other processes like planning and goal-related behavior, and how brain areas l...

Support the show  to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community . Check out my free video series about what's missing in AI and Neuroscience Ole Jensen is co-director of the Centre for Human Brain Health at University of Birmingham, where he runs his Neuronal Oscillations Group lab. Ole is interested in how the oscillations in our brains affect our cognition by helping to shap...

Support the show  to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community . Check out my free video series about what's missing in AI and Neuroscience Chris Summerfield runs the Human Information Processing Lab at University of Oxford, and he's a research scientist at Deepmind. You may remember him from episode 95 with Sam Gershman , when we discussed ideas around the usefulness of neur...

Check out my free video series about what's missing in AI and Neuroscience Support the show  to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community . Paul Rosenbloom is Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at the University of Southern California. In the early 1980s, Paul , along with John Laird and the early AI pioneer Alan Newell, developed one the earliest and best know cognitive...

Support the show  to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community . Check out my free video series about what's missing in AI and Neuroscience Sarah Robins is a philosopher at the University of Kansas, one a growing handful of philosophers specializing in memory. Much of her work focuses on memory traces, which is roughly the idea that somehow our memories leave a trace in our m...

Support the show  to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community . Check out my free video series about what's missing in AI and Neuroscience Mariam Aly runs the Aly lab at Columbia University, where she studies the interaction of memory, attention, and perception in brain regions like the hippocampus. The short story is that memory affects our perceptions, attention affects ou...

Support the show  to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community . Check out my free video series about what's missing in AI and Neuroscience Luiz Pessoa runs his Laboratory of Cognition and Emotion at the University of Maryland, College Park, where he studies how emotion and cognition interact. On this episode, we discuss many of the topics from his latest book, The Entangled...

Check out my free video series about what's missing in AI and Neuroscience Support the show  to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community . Anne Collins runs her  Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Lab at the University of California, Berkley One of the things she's been working on for years is how our working memory plays a role in learning as well, and specifically h...

Check out my free video series about what's missing in AI and Neuroscience Support the show  to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community . Carolyn Dicey Jennings is a philosopher and a cognitive scientist at University of California, Merced. In her book The Attending Mind , she lays out an attempt to unify the concept of attention. Carolyn defines attention roughly as the me...

Check out my free video series about what's missing in AI and Neuroscience Support the show  to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community . Michael L. Anderson is a professor at the Rotman Institute of Philosophy, at Western University. His book, After Phrenology: Neural Reuse and the Interactive Brain , calls for a re-conceptualization of how we understand and study brains a...

Support the show  to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community . Steve Byrnes is a physicist turned AGI safety researcher. He's concerned that when we create AGI, whenever and however that might happen, we run the risk of creating it in a less than perfectly safe way. AGI safety (AGI not doing something bad) is a wide net that encompasses AGI alignment (AGI doing what we want...

Support the show  to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community . Check out my free video series about what's missing in AI and Neuroscience Dan Nicholson is a philosopher at George Mason University. He incorporates the history of science and philosophy into modern analyses of our conceptions of processes related to life and organisms. He is also interested in re-orienting our...

Check out my free video series about what's missing in AI and Neuroscience Support the show  to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community . William B. Miller is an ex-physician turned evolutionary biologist. In this episode, we discuss topics related to his new book, Bioverse: How the Cellular World Contains the Secrets to Life's Biggest Questions . The premise of the book is...

Check out my free video series about what's missing in AI and Neuroscience Support the show  to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community . Gaute Einevoll is a professor at the University of Oslo and Norwegian University of Life Sciences. Use develops detailed models of brain networks to use as simulations, so neuroscientists can test their various theories and hypotheses abo...

Check out my free video series about what's missing in AI and Neuroscience Support the show  to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community . Noah Hutton writes, directs, and scores documentary and narrative films. On this episode, we discuss his documentary In Silico. In 2009, Noah watched a TED talk by Henry Markram, in which Henry claimed it would take 10 years to fully simu...

Check out my free video series about what's missing in AI and Neuroscience Support the show  to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community . Lauren Ross is an Associate Professor at the University of California, Irvine. She studies and writes about causal and non-causal explanations in philosophy of science, including distinctions among causal structures. Throughout her work,...

Check out my free video series about what's missing in AI and Neuroscience Support the show  to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community . James Woodward is a recently retired Professor from the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh. Jim has tremendously influenced the field of causal explanation in the philosophy of science. His acc...

Check out my short video series about what's missing in AI and Neuroscience. Support the show  to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community . Large language models, often now called "foundation models", are the model de jour in AI, based on the transformer architecture . In this episode, I bring together Evelina Fedorenko and Emily M. Bender to discuss how language models sta...

Check out my free video series about what's missing in AI and Neuroscience Support the show  to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community . Rodolphe Sepulchre is a control engineer and theorist at Cambridge University. He focuses on applying feedback control engineering principles to build circuits that model neurons and neuronal circuits. We discuss his work on mixed feedbac...