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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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  • Feb 6, 2024 · 1 hr 28 min

    BI 183 Dan Goodman: Neural Reckoning

    Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. You may know my guest as the co-founder of Neuromatch, the excellent online computational neuroscience academy, or as the creator of the Brian spiking neural

  • Jan 19, 2024 · 1 hr 25 min

    BI 182: John Krakauer Returns… Again

    Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. Check out my free video series about whats missing in AI and Neuroscience John Krakauer has been on the podcast multiple times (see links below). Today

  • Dec 25, 2023 · 1 hr 27 min

    BI 181 Max Bennett: A Brief History of Intelligence

    Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. Check out my free video series about whats missing in AI and Neuroscience By day, Max Bennett is an entrepreneur. He has cofounded and CEOd multiple

  • Nov 27, 2023 · 1 hr 39 min

    BI 179 Laura Gradowski: Include the Fringe with Pluralism

    Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. Check out my free video series about whats missing in AI and Neuroscience Laura Gradowski is a philosopher of science at the University of Pittsburgh. Pl

  • Nov 13, 2023 · 1 hr 35 min

    BI 178 Eric Shea-Brown: Neural Dynamics and Dimensions

    Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. Check out my free video series about whats missing in AI and Neuroscience Eric Shea-Brown is a theoretical neuroscientist and principle investigator of

  • Oct 30, 2023 · 1 hr 13 min

    BI 177 Special: Bernstein Workshop Panel

    Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. I was recently invited to moderate a panel at the Annual Bernstein conference - this one was in Berlin Germany. The panel I moderated was at a satellite workshop

  • Oct 14, 2023 · 1 hr 23 min

    BI 176 David Poeppel Returns

    Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. David runs his lab at NYU, where they study auditory cognition, speech perception, language, and music. On the heels of the episode with David Glanzman, we di

  • Oct 3, 2023 · 1 hr 46 min

    BI 175 Kevin Mitchell: Free Agents

    Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. Check out my free video series about whats missing in AI and Neuroscience Kevin Mitchell is professor of genetics at Trinity College Dublin. Hes been o

  • Sep 13, 2023 · 1 hr 45 min

    BI 174 Alicia Juarrero: Context Changes Everything

    Check out my free video series about whats missing in AI and Neuroscience Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. Alicia Juarrero is a philosopher and has been interested in complexity since be

  • Aug 30, 2023 · 1 hr 35 min

    BI 173 Justin Wood: Origins of Visual Intelligence

    Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. In the intro, I mention the Bernstein conference workshop Ill participate in, called How can machine learning be used to generate insights and theories in neuro

  • Aug 7, 2023 · 1 hr 30 min

    BI 172 David Glanzman: Memory All The Way Down

    Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. David runs his lab at UCLA where hes also a distinguished professor.  David used to believe what is currently the mainstream view, that our memories are

  • Jul 22, 2023 · 1 hr 24 min

    BI 171 Mike Frank: Early Language and Cognition

    Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. Check out my free video series about whats missing in AI and Neuroscience My guest is Michael C. Frank, better known as Mike Frank, who runs the Langua

  • Jul 11, 2023 · 1 hr 17 min

    BI 170 Ali Mohebi: Starting a Research Lab

    Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. Check out my free video series about whats missing in AI and Neuroscience In this episode I have a casual chat with Ali Mohebi about his new faculty posi

  • Jun 28, 2023 · 1 hr 41 min

    BI 169 Andrea Martin: Neural Dynamics and Language

    Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. Check out my free video series about whats missing in AI and Neuroscience My guest today is Andrea Martin, who is the Research Group Leader in the depart

  • May 27, 2023 · 1 hr 27 min

    BI 167 Panayiota Poirazi: AI Brains Need Dendrites

    Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. Check out my free video series about whats missing in AI and Neuroscience Panayiota Poirazi runs the Poirazi Lab at the FORTH Institute of Molecular Bi

  • May 9, 2023 · 1 hr 27 min

    BI 166 Nick Enfield: Language vs. Reality

    Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. Check out my free video series about whats missing in AI and Neuroscience Nick Enfield is a professor of linguistics at the University of Sydney. In th

  • Apr 12, 2023 · 1 hr 38 min

    BI 165 Jeffrey Bowers: Psychology Gets No Respect

    Check out my free video series about whats 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.

  • Apr 1, 2023 · 1 hr 31 min

    BI 164 Gary Lupyan: How Language Affects Thought

    Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. Check out my free video series about whats missing in AI and Neuroscience Gary Lupyan runs the Lupyan Lab at University of Wisconsin, Madison, where he