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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.

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  • Updated July 15

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  • Dec 26, 2021 · 1 hr 18 min

    BI 123 Irina Rish: Continual Learning

    Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. Irina is a faculty member at MILA-Quebec AI Institute and a professor at Université de Montréal. She has worked from both ends of the neuroscience/AI interface,

  • Dec 12, 2021 · 1 hr 33 min

    BI 122 Kohitij Kar: Visual Intelligence

    Support the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community. Ko and I discuss a range of topics around his work to understand our visual intelligence. Ko was a postdoc in James Dicarlos lab, where he helped develop the convolutional neu

  • Dec 2, 2021 · 1 hr 43 min

    BI 121 Mac Shine: Systems Neurobiology

    Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. Mac and I discuss his systems level approach to understanding brains, and his theoretical work suggesting important roles for the thalamus, basal ganglia, and c

  • Nov 11, 2021 · 1 hr 6 min

    BI 119 Henry Yin: The Crisis in Neuroscience

    Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. Henry and I discuss why he thinks neuroscience is in a crisis (in the Thomas Kuhn sense of scientific paradigms, crises, and revolutions). Henry thinks our curr

  • Nov 1, 2021 · 1 hr 36 min

    BI 118 Johannes Jäger: Beyond Networks

    Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. Johannes (Yogi) is a freelance philosopher, researcher & educator. We discuss many of the topics in his online course, Beyond Networks: The Evolution of Liv

  • Oct 19, 2021 · 1 hr 32 min

    BI 117 Anil Seth: Being You

    Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. Anil and I discuss a range of topics from his book, BEING YOU A New Science of Consciousness. Anil lays out his framework for explaining consciousness, which is

  • Oct 12, 2021 · 1 hr 31 min

    BI 116 Michael W. Cole: Empirical Neural Networks

    Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. Mike and I discuss his modeling approach to study cognition. Many people I have on the podcast use deep neural networks to study brains, where the idea is to trai

  • Oct 2, 2021 · 1 hr 23 min

    BI 115 Steve Grossberg: Conscious Mind, Resonant Brain

    Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. Steve and I discuss his book Conscious Mind, Resonant Brain: How Each Brain Makes a Mind.  The book is a huge collection of his models and their prediction

  • Sep 22, 2021 · 1 hr 38 min

    BI 114 Mark Sprevak and Mazviita Chirimuuta: Computation and the Mind

    Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. Mark and Mazviita discuss the philosophy and science of mind, and how to think about computations with respect to understanding minds. Current approaches to expla

  • Sep 12, 2021 · 1 hr 30 min

    BI 113 David Barack and John Krakauer: Two Views On Cognition

    Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. David and John discuss some of the concepts from their recent paper Two Views on the Cognitive Brain, in which they argue the recent population-based dynamical sy

  • Aug 13, 2021 · 1 hr 23 min

    BI NMA 05: NLP and Generative Models Panel

    BI NMA 05: NLP and Generative Models Panel This is the 5th in a series of panel discussions in collaboration with Neuromatch Academy, the online co

  • Aug 6, 2021 · 59 min

    BI NMA 04: Deep Learning Basics Panel

    BI NMA 04: Deep Learning Basics Panel This is the 4th in a series of panel discussions in collaboration with Neuromatch Academy, the online computa

  • Jul 22, 2021 · 1 hr

    BI NMA 03: Stochastic Processes Panel

    Panelists: Yael Niv.@yael_nivKonrad Kording@KordingLab.Previous BI episodes:BI 027 Ioana Marinescu & Konrad Kording: Causality in Quasi-Experiments.BI 014 Konrad Kording: Regulators, Mount Up!Sam Gershman.@gershbrain.Previous BI episodes:BI 095 Ch

  • Jul 15, 2021 · 1 hr 15 min

    BI NMA 02: Dynamical Systems Panel

    Panelists: Adrienne Fairhall.@alfairhall.Bing Brunton.@bingbrunton.Kanaka Rajan.@rajankdr.BI 054 Kanaka Rajan: How Do We Switch Behaviors? This is the second in a series of panel discussions in collaboration with Neuromatch Academy, the online comp

  • Jul 12, 2021 · 1 hr 27 min

    BI NMA 01: Machine Learning Panel

    Panelists: Athena Akrami: @AthenaAkrami.Demba Ba.Gunnar Blohm: @GunnarBlohm.Kunlin Wei. This is the first in a series of panel discussions in collaboration with Neuromatch Academy, the online computational neuroscience summer school. In this episod