312 - Guest: Tomaso Poggio, Computational Neuroscientist, part 2

About this episode

The episode features a discussion with Tomaso Poggio on computational neuroscience and its implications for AI.

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ . I have been talking with Tomaso Poggio, Eugene McDermott professor in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT and the Director of the Center for Brains, Minds, and Machines, and one of the founders of the field of computational neuroscience. Tomaso is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a founding fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. He develops models of brain function that illuminate human intelligence and builds intelligent machines that can mimic human performance His new book, Brains, Minds, Machines, The Mystery of Human Intelligence, the Enigmas of the Artificial, comes out this summer. We talk about learning in the brain and synaptic mechanisms, the role of sleep, what AI scientists should pay more attention to from neuroscience, other computational mechanisms in the brain besides neurons, connectomics, robotics, and… flies and worms. All this plus our usual look at today's AI headlines! Transcript and URLs referenced at HumanCusp Blog.

People in this episode

Guest: Tomaso Poggio

Topics covered

• computational neuroscience
• brain function
• human intelligence
• AI and neuroscience
• learning mechanisms
• robotics

Keywords

• Tomaso Poggio
• computational neuroscience
• brain function
• AI
• learning
• sleep
• connectomics
• robotics

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: MIT, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence

Books & works: Brains, Minds, Machines, The Mystery of Human Intelligence, the Enigmas of the Artificial

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