The Transformative Ideas Podcast

#5: Artificial Intelligence, Neuroscience and Free Energy with Charel van Hoof


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In this episode, we are speaking with Charel van Hoof, former Senior Vice President and CIO at Philips and now PhD candidate in Artificial Intelligence & Robotics at the Delft Technical University, about the relationships between AI research and neuroscience.

We talk about what intelligence is, getting into Karl Friston's free energy principle, discussing how it relates to brain function and how it could shape AI of the future. We delve into the connections between AI and robotics, spatial approaches to intelligence, and an evolutionary perspective on how our minds could have emerged.


We close by chatting about the future of AI, the moral responsibilities of AI researchers, and advice for people wanting to get started with AI research.

Charel's Kaggle notebooks that offer a great hands-on introduction to the free energy principle can be found: "https://www.kaggle.com/charel/learn-by-example-active-inference-in-the-brain-1)

The podcast is hosted by Manuel Brenner.

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