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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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  • Mar 20, 2023 · 1 hr 21 min

    BI 163 Ellie Pavlick: The Mind of a Language Model

    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 Ellie Pavlick runs her Language Understanding and Representation Lab at Brown

  • Mar 8, 2023 · 1 hr 23 min

    BI 162 Earl K. Miller: Thoughts are an Emergent Property

    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 Earl Miller runs the Miller Lab at MIT, where he studies how our brains carry

  • Feb 24, 2023 · 1 hr 34 min

    BI 161 Hugo Spiers: Navigation and Spatial 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 Hugo Spiers runs the Spiers Lab at University College London. In general Hugo i

  • Feb 7, 2023 · 1 hr 28 min

    BI 160 Ole Jensen: Rhythms of 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 Ole Jensen is co-director of the Centre for Human Brain Health at University

  • Jan 26, 2023 · 1 hr 28 min

    BI 159 Chris Summerfield: Natural General 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 Chris Summerfield runs the Human Information Processing Lab at University of

  • Jan 16, 2023 · 1 hr 35 min

    BI 158 Paul Rosenbloom: Cognitive Architectures

    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. Paul Rosenbloom is Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at the University of

  • Jan 2, 2023 · 1 hr 20 min

    BI 157 Sarah Robins: Philosophy of Memory

    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 Sarah Robins is a philosopher at the University of Kansas, one a growing hand

  • Dec 23, 2022 · 1 hr 40 min

    BI 156 Mariam Aly: Memory, Attention, and Perception

    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 Mariam Aly runs the Aly lab at Columbia University, where she studies the int

  • Dec 10, 2022 · 1 hr 54 min

    BI 155 Luiz Pessoa: The Entangled Brain

    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 Luiz Pessoa runs his Laboratory of Cognition and Emotion at the Universit

  • Nov 29, 2022 · 1 hr 22 min

    BI 154 Anne Collins: Learning with Working Memory

    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. Anne Collins runs her  Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Lab at the Uni

  • Nov 18, 2022 · 1 hr 25 min

    BI 153 Carolyn Dicey-Jennings: Attention and the Self

    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. Carolyn Dicey Jennings is a philosopher and a cognitive scientist at University

  • Nov 8, 2022 · 1 hr 45 min

    BI 152 Michael L. Anderson: After Phrenology: Neural Reuse

    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. Michael L. Anderson is a professor at the Rotman Institute of Philosophy, at We

  • Oct 30, 2022 · 1 hr 31 min

    BI 151 Steve Byrnes: Brain-like AGI Safety

    Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. Steve Byrnes is a physicist turned AGI safety researcher. Hes concerned that when we create AGI, whenever and however that might happen, we run the risk of cr

  • Oct 15, 2022 · 1 hr 38 min

    BI 150 Dan Nicholson: Machines, Organisms, Processes

    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 Dan Nicholson is a philosopher at George Mason University. He incorporates th

  • Oct 5, 2022 · 1 hr 33 min

    BI 149 William B. Miller: Cell Intelligence

    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. William B. Miller is an ex-physician turned evolutionary biologist. In this e

  • Sep 25, 2022 · 1 hr 28 min

    BI 148 Gaute Einevoll: Brain Simulations

    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. Gaute Einevoll is a professor at the University of Oslo and Norwegian Univers

  • Sep 13, 2022 · 1 hr 37 min

    BI 147 Noah Hutton: In Silico

    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. Noah Hutton writes, directs, and scores documentary and narrative films. On t

  • Sep 7, 2022 · 1 hr 22 min

    BI 146 Lauren Ross: Causal and Non-Causal Explanation

    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. Lauren Ross is an Associate Professor at the University of California, Irvine

  • Aug 28, 2022 · 1 hr 25 min

    BI 145 James Woodward: Causation with a Human Face

    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. James Woodward is a recently retired Professor from the Department of History

  • Aug 17, 2022 · 1 hr 11 min

    BI 144 Emily M. Bender and Ev Fedorenko: Large Language Models

    Check out my short video series about whats missing in AI and Neuroscience. Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. Large language models, often now called foundation models, are the model de jou