#106 – Matt Botvinick: Neuroscience, Psychology, and AI at DeepMind

Matt Botvinick is the Director of Neuroscience Research at
DeepMind. He is a brilliant cross-disciplinary mind navigating
effortlessly between cognitive psychology, computational
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support it on Patreon. Here's the outline of the episode. On some
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to that time. OUTLINE: 00:00 - Introduction 03:29 - How much of the
brain do we understand? 14:26 - Psychology 22:53 - The paradox of
the human brain 32:23 - Cognition is a function of the environment
39:34 - Prefrontal cortex 53:27 - Information processing in the
brain 1:00:11 - Meta-reinforcement learning 1:15:18 - Dopamine
1:19:01 - Neuroscience and AI research 1:23:37 - Human side of AI
1:39:56 - Dopamine and reinforcement learning 1:53:07 - Can we
create an AI that a human can love?