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Brain Inspired

Paul Middlebrooks

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 intelligence, cognitive science, philosophy, psychology, and more: the symbiosis of these overlapping fields, how they inform each other, where they differ, what the past brought us, and what the future brings. Topics include computational neuroscience, supervised machine learning, unsupervised learning, reinforcement learning, deep learning, convolutional and recurrent neural networks, decision-making science, AI agents, backpropagation, credit assignment, neuroengineering, neuromorphics, emergence, philosophy of mind, consciousness, general AI, spiking neural networks, data science, and a lot more. The podcast is not produced for a general audience. Instead, it aims to educate, challenge, inspire, and hopefully entertain those interested in learning more about neuroscience and AI.

  • 157 episodes
  • Updated July 15

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  • Jan 14, 2025 · 1 hr 46 min

    BI 203 David Krakauer: How To Think Like a Complexity Scientist

    Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. The Transmitter is an online publication that aims to deliver useful information, insights and tools to build bridges across neuroscience and advance research

  • Jan 3, 2025 · 1 hr 38 min

    BI 202 Eli Sennesh: Divide-and-Conquer to Predict

    Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. The Transmitter is an online publication that aims to deliver useful information, insights and tools to build bridges across neuroscience and advance research.

  • Dec 18, 2024 · 1 hr 37 min

    BI 201 Rajesh Rao: From Predictive Coding to Brain Co-Processors

    Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. Today Im in conversation with Rajesh Rao, a distinguished professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Washington, where he also co-dire

  • Dec 4, 2024 · 1 hr 37 min

    BI 200 Grace Hwang and Joe Monaco: The Future of NeuroAI

    Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. Joe Monaco and Grace Hwang  co-organized a recent workshop I participated in, the 2024 BRAIN NeuroAI Workshop. You may have heard of the BRAIN Initiative

  • Nov 26, 2024 · 1 hr 49 min

    BI 199 Hessam Akhlaghpour: Natural Universal Computation

    Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. The Transmitter is an online publication that aims to deliver useful information, insights and tools to build bridges across neuroscience and advance research

  • Nov 11, 2024 · 1 hr 35 min

    BI 198 Tony Zador: Neuroscience Principles to Improve AI

    Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. The Transmitter is an online publication that aims to deliver useful information, insights and tools to build bridges across neuroscience and advance research.

  • Oct 25, 2024 · 1 hr 29 min

    BI 197 Karen Adolph: How Babies Learn to Move and Think

    Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. The Transmitter is an online publication that aims to deliver useful information, insights and tools to build bridges across neuroscience and advance research. Vi

  • Sep 11, 2024 · 1 hr 32 min

    BI 193 Kim Stachenfeld: Enhancing Neuroscience and AI

    Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. The Transmitter is an online publication that aims to deliver useful information, insights and tools to build bridges across neuroscience and advance research.

  • Aug 28, 2024 · 1 hr 30 min

    BI 192 Àlex Gómez-Marín: The Edges of Consciousness

    Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. Àlex Gómez-Marín heads The Behavior of Organisms Laboratory at the Institute of Neuroscience in Alicante, Spain. Hes one of those theoretical physicist turned

  • Jul 31, 2024 · 1 hr 41 min

    BI 190 Luis Favela: The Ecological Brain

    Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. Luis Favela is an Associate Professor at Indiana University Bloomington. He is part philosopher, part cognitive scientist, part many things, and on this episode

  • Jun 29, 2024 · 1 hr 27 min

    BI 189 Joshua Vogelstein: Connectomes and Prospective Learning

    Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. Jovo, as youll learn, is theoretically oriented, and enjoys the formalism of mathematics to approach questions that begin with a sense of wonder. So after I lea

  • May 27, 2024 · 1 hr 28 min

    BI 188 Jolande Fooken: Coordinating Action and Perception

    Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. Jolande Fooken is a post-postdoctoral researcher interested in how we move our eyes and move our hands together to accomplish naturalistic tasks. Hand-eye coo

  • Apr 20, 2024 · 1 hr 3 min

    BI 187: COSYNE 2024 Neuro-AI Panel

    Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. Recently I was invited to moderate a panel at the annual Computational and Systems Neuroscience, or COSYNE, conference. This year was the 20th anniversary of CO

  • Mar 25, 2024 · 1 hr 43 min

    BI 186 Mazviita Chirimuuta: The Brain Abstracted

    Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. Mazviita Chirimuuta is a philosopher at the University of Edinburgh. Today we discuss topics from her new book, The Brain Abstracted: Simplification in the Hi

  • Mar 6, 2024 · 1 hr 44 min

    BI 185 Eric Yttri: Orchestrating Behavior

    Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. As some of you know, I recently got back into the research world, and in particular I work in Eric Yttris lab at Carnegie Mellon University. Erics lab stud

  • Feb 20, 2024 · 1 hr 30 min

    BI 184 Peter Stratton: Synthesize Neural Principles

    Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. Peter Stratton is a research scientist at Queensland University of Technology. I was pointed toward Pete by a patreon supporter, who sent me a sort of pers