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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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  • Aug 5, 2022 · 1 hr 24 min

    BI 143 Rodolphe Sepulchre: Mixed Feedback Control

    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. Rodolphe Sepulchre is a control engineer and theorist at Cambridge University

  • Jul 26, 2022 · 1 hr 43 min

    BI 142 Cameron Buckner: The New DoGMA

    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. Cameron Buckner is a philosopher and cognitive scientist at The University of

  • Jul 12, 2022 · 1 hr 31 min

    BI 141 Carina Curto: From Structure to Dynamics

    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. Carina Curto is a professor in the Department of Mathematics at The Pennsylvani

  • Jun 30, 2022 · 1 hr 20 min

    BI 140 Jeff Schall: Decisions and Eye Movements

    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. Jeff Schall is the director of the Center for Visual Neurophysiology at York Un

  • Jun 20, 2022 · 1 hr 20 min

    BI 139 Marc Howard: Compressed Time and 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. Marc Howard runs his Theoretical Cognitive Neuroscience Lab at Boston University,

  • Jun 6, 2022 · 1 hr 51 min

    BI 138 Matthew Larkum: The Dendrite Hypothesis

    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. Matthew Larkum runs his lab at Humboldt University of Berlin, where his group s

  • May 27, 2022 · 1 hr 17 min

    BI 137 Brian Butterworth: Can Fish Count?

    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. Brian Butterworth is Emeritus Professor of Cognitive Neuropsychology at Unive

  • May 17, 2022 · 1 hr 34 min

    BI 136 Michel Bitbol and Alex Gomez-Marin: Phenomenology

    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 Michel Bitbol is Director of Research at CNRS (Centre National de la Recherch

  • May 6, 2022 · 1 hr 17 min

    BI 135 Elena Galea: The Stars of the 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 Brains are often conceived as consisting of neurons and everything else. As Ele

  • Apr 27, 2022 · 1 hr 26 min

    BI 134 Mandyam Srinivasan: Bee Flight 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 Srini is Emeritus Professor at Queensland Brain Institute in Australia. In this

  • Apr 15, 2022 · 1 hr 29 min

    BI 133 Ken Paller: Lucid Dreaming, Memory, and Sleep

    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 Ken discusses the recent work in his lab that allows communication with subject

  • Apr 3, 2022 · 1 hr 17 min

    BI 132 Ila Fiete: A Grid Scaffold for Memory

    Announcement: Im releasing my Neuro-AI course April 10-13, after which it will be closed for some time. Learn more here. Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. Ila discusses her theoretical n

  • Mar 26, 2022 · 1 hr 26 min

    BI 131 Sri Ramaswamy and Jie Mei: Neuromodulation-aware DNNs

    Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. Sri and Mei join me to discuss how including principles of neuromodulation in deep learning networks may improve network performance. Its an ever-present questi

  • Mar 13, 2022 · 1 hr

    BI 130 Eve Marder: Modulation of Networks

    Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. Eve discusses many of the lessons she has learned studying a small nervous system, the crustacean stomatogastric nervous system (STG). The STG has only about 30 neu

  • Mar 2, 2022 · 1 hr 21 min

    BI 129 Patryk Laurent: Learning from the Real World

    Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. Patryk and I discuss his wide-ranging background working in both the neuroscience and AI worlds, and his resultant perspective on whats needed to move forward i

  • Feb 20, 2022 · 1 hr 25 min

    BI 128 Hakwan Lau: In Consciousness We Trust

    Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. Hakwan and I discuss many of the topics in his new book, In Consciousness we Trust: The Cognitive Neuroscience of Subjective Experience. Hakwan describes his pe

  • Feb 10, 2022 · 1 hr 42 min

    BI 127 Tomás Ryan: Memory, Instinct, and Forgetting

    Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. Tomás and I discuss his research and ideas on how memories are encoded (the engram), the role of forgetting, and the overlapping mechanisms of memory and instin

  • Jan 31, 2022 · 1 hr 19 min

    BI 126 Randy Gallistel: Where Is the Engram?

    Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. Randy and I discuss his long-standing interest in how the brain stores information to compute. That is, where is the engram, the physical trace of memory in the

  • Jan 19, 2022 · 1 hr 11 min

    BI 125 Doris Tsao, Tony Zador, Blake Richards: NAISys

    Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. Doris, Tony, and Blake are the organizers for this years NAISys conference, From Neuroscience to Artificially Intelligent Systems (NAISys), at Cold Spring Harbor.

  • Jan 5, 2022 · 1 hr 39 min

    BI 124 Peter Robin Hiesinger: The Self-Assembling Brain

    Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. Robin and I discuss many of the ideas in his book The Self-Assembling Brain: How Neural Networks Grow Smarter. The premise is that our DNA encodes an algorithmi