In the first bonus episode of RAPIDSFire, I sit down with Rachel Allen, who holds a PhD in Neuroscience. We talk about how neural net models relate to and differ from real brains, ethical issues around conscience machines and their training, and what steps might be taken to get closer to true thinking machines. I had a lot of fun recording this, and I hope you enjoy it! 

Reconstructing visual experiences from brain activity evoked by natural movies

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3326357/

Dead Salmon Study

http://prefrontal.org/files/posters/Bennett-Salmon-2009.jpg

Existential Comics - Turing Tests and Other Things of That Nature

https://existentialcomics.com/comic/357

Spiteful Octopi

https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ecy.3266

Corrupted Microsoft Language Model

https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/artificial-intelligence/machine-learning/in-2016-microsofts-racist-chatbot-revealed-the-dangers-of-online-conversation