#106 – Matt Botvinick: Neuroscience, Psychology, and AI at DeepMind
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About this episode
<p>Matt Botvinick is the Director of Neuroscience Research at DeepMind. He is a brilliant cross-disciplinary mind navigating effortlessly between cognitive psychology, computational neuroscience, and artificial intelligence.</p>
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<p>Here’s the outline of the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time.</p>
<p>OUTLINE:<br />
00:00 – Introduction<br />
03:29 – How much of the brain do we understand?<br />
14:26 – Psychology<br />
22:53 – The paradox of the human brain<br />
32:23 – Cognition is a function of the environment<br />
39:34 – Prefrontal cortex<br />
53:27 – Information processing in the brain<br />
1:00:11 – Meta-reinforcement learning<br />
1:15:18 – Dopamine<br />
1:19:01 – Neuroscience and AI research<br />
1:23:37 – Human side of AI<br />
1:39:56 – Dopamine and reinforcement learning<br />
1:53:07 – Can we create an AI that a human can love?</p>