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Show notes: braininspired.co/podcast/125
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Doris, Tony, and Blake are the organizers for this year's NAISys conference, From Neuroscience to Artificially Intelligent Systems (NAISys), at Cold Spring Harbor. We discuss the conference itself, some history of the neuroscience and AI interface, their current research interests, and a handful of topics around evolution, innateness, development, learning, and the current and future prospects for using neuroscience to inspire new ideas in artificial intelligence.
0:00 - Intro
4:16 - Tony Zador
5:38 - Doris Tsao
10:44 - Blake Richards
15:46 - Deductive, inductive, abductive inference
16:32 - NAISys
33:09 - Evolution, development, learning
38:23 - Learning: plasticity vs. dynamical structures
54:13 - Different kinds of understanding
1:03:05 - Do we understand evolution well enough?
1:04:03 - Neuro-AI fad?
1:06:26 - Are your problems bigger or smaller now?
Show notes: braininspired.co/podcast/125
Patreon support: patreon.com/braininspired
Free Video Series: Open Questions in AI and Neuroscience:
braininspired.co/open
Doris, Tony, and Blake are the organizers for this year's NAISys conference, From Neuroscience to Artificially Intelligent Systems (NAISys), at Cold Spring Harbor. We discuss the conference itself, some history of the neuroscience and AI interface, their current research interests, and a handful of topics around evolution, innateness, development, learning, and the current and future prospects for using neuroscience to inspire new ideas in artificial intelligence.
0:00 - Intro
4:16 - Tony Zador
5:38 - Doris Tsao
10:44 - Blake Richards
15:46 - Deductive, inductive, abductive inference
16:32 - NAISys
33:09 - Evolution, development, learning
38:23 - Learning: plasticity vs. dynamical structures
54:13 - Different kinds of understanding
1:03:05 - Do we understand evolution well enough?
1:04:03 - Neuro-AI fad?
1:06:26 - Are your problems bigger or smaller now?
