An Architecture for Building Brains from Top to Bottom?

About this episode

Professor Chris Eliasmith discusses his neural engineering framework and the semantic pointer architecture with Dr. Sunny Bains and other experts.

Professor Chris Eliasmith is a computer scientist and philosopher who’s been modelling cognitive systems for almost three decades. In this episode of Brains and Machines , he talks to Dr. Sunny Bains of University College London about his neural engineering framework and the semantic pointer architecture his team have developed to implement it. Discussion follows with Dr. Giulia D’Angelo from the Czech Technical University in Prague and Professor Ralph Etienne-Cummings of Johns Hopkins University.

People in this episode

Guests: Professor Chris Eliasmith, Dr. Sunny Bains

Topics covered

• cognitive systems
• neural engineering
• semantic pointer architecture
• artificial intelligence
• machine learning

Keywords

• cognitive systems
• neural engineering
• semantic pointer architecture
• artificial intelligence
• machine learning
• Dr. Sunny Bains
• Professor Chris Eliasmith

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: University College London, Czech Technical University, Johns Hopkins University

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