Brain Inspired

By Paul MiddlebrooksScience Technology Education Natural Sciences

Brain Inspired episodes

November 22, 2018 BI 019 Julie Grollier: Spintronic Neuromorphic Nano-Oscillators!
54 min
November 15, 2018BI 018 Dean Buonomano: Time in Brains and AI
Show notes:
Follow Dean on Twitter: @deanbuono
Visit his lab website at UCLA.
The review we discuss:
The Neural Basis of Timing: Distributed Mechanisms for Diverse Functions
The two books we discuss:
1 hr 7 min
November 08, 2018BI 017 Jeff Hawkins: Location, Location, Location
Follow Jeff and Numenta on twitter: @JeffCHawkins and @Numenta.
The Numenta website- access all the previous papers leading up to this point.
The paper we discuss:
A Framework for Intelligence and Cortical Function Based on Grid Cells in the Neocortex.
His influential and excellent book On Intelligence: How a New Understanding of the Brain Will Lead to the Creation of Truly Intelligent Machines
58 min
November 01, 2018BI 016 Ryota Kanai: Artificial Consciousness
Show notes:
Ryota founded the company Araya.
Follow him on twitter: @kanair.
Integrated Information Theory.
Pansychism.
The paper we discuss:
A unified strategy for implementing curiosity and empowerment driven reinforcement learning.
An excellent article by Ryota in Nautilus..
We Need Conscious Robots.
Higher order theories of consciousness.
The hard problem of consciousness.
The free energy principle.
56 min
October 25, 2018BI 015 Terrence Sejnowski: How to Start a Deep Learning Revolution
Show notes:
His new book, The Deep Learning Revolution:
His Computational Neurobiology Laboratory at the Salk Institute.
His faculty page at UCSD.
His first book, The Computational Brain.
His online course with Barbara Oakley, Learning How To Learn.
Steven Johnson’s book Where Good Ideas Come From.
50 min
October 18, 2018BI 014 Konrad Kording: Regulators, Mount Up!
Show Notes:
Follow Konrad on Twitter: @KordingLab.
Konrad’s lab website.
The paper we discuss:
Bioscience-scale automated detection of figure element reuse.
42 min
October 11, 2018BI 013 Dileep George: Vicarious Robot AI
Dileep’s homepage.
Dileep on Twitter: @dileeplearning
Vicarious, the general AI robotics company Dileep cofounded.
Vicarious on Twitter: @vicariousai.
The papers we discuss:
A generative vision model that trains with high data efficiency and breaks text-based CAPTCHAs.
Cortical Microcircuits from a Generative Vision Model
Probabilistic graphical models.
Hierarchical temporal memory.
HTM School on Youtube.
Dileep’s earlier paper with Jeff Hawkins of Numenta: Towards a Mathematical Theory of Cortical Micro-circuits
53 min
October 05, 2018BI 012 Niko Kriegeskorte: Black Box, White Box
Mentioned in the show:
Follow Niko on twitter @KriegeskorteLab.
Visit his lab website.
The Cognitive Computational Neuroscience Conference.
The review papers we base the conversation on:
Deep Neural Networks: A New Framework for Modeling Biological Vision and Brain Information Processing.
Cognitive computational neuroscience.
Deep Neural Networks in Computational Neuroscience.
Want a thorough breakdown of recent research articles? Try his blog.
Not mentioned in the show, but check out the computational cognitive neuroscience summer school.
1 hr 7 min
September 27, 2018BI 011 Grace Lindsay: Visual Attention in CNNs
Mentioned in the show:
The paper we discuss: How biological attention mechanisms improve task performance in a large-scale visual system model.
Follow Grace on Twitter: @neurograce.
She co-hosts the AI/Neuroscience/Science podcast, Unsupervised Thinking.
Her excellent blog Neurdiness.
The CNN blog post I highly recommend for a deeper dive: Deep Convolutional Neural Networks as Models of the Visual System: Q&A.
Or listen to my interview with Dan Yamins.
The podcast that inspired Grace’s Unsupervised Thinking podcast: Partially Examined Life.
The (famous) Cocktail Party Effect.
3 excellent books by Yuval Noah Harari (whose name I mar) I mention in passing:
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
51 min
September 20, 2018 BI 010 Adam Marblestone: Brain Cost Functions
Adam and I discuss the possibility there are cost functions optimized in the brain, where and how it might work, Marvin Minsky's Society of Mind, and lots more.
1 hr 5 min

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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…