#20: The origins of artificial intelligence - Aaron Andalman
I sat down with Dr. Aaron Andalman, the Chief Science Officer and co-founder of Cognitiv. Andalman holds a PhD in neuroscience, and so today, we’re breaking down the gaps, connections and inspirations between AI and neuroscience; all the things we’ve learned and the many things we still don’t know.
Episode links:
- The giant squid: https://medium.com/the-quantastic-journal/from-squids-to-ai-how-neuroscience-and-physics-sparked-a-technological-revolution-06d8c291717c
- Neuroscience and AI: https://neuroscience.stanford.edu/news/neuroscience-and-ai-what-artificial-intelligence-teaches-us-about-brain-and-vice-versa
- The specter of AGI: https://www.thedeepview.co/p/how-big-tech-is-using-the-ai-race-and-the-specter-of-agi-to-cement-its-power-agi-openai-google
- Scale it up: https://www.thedeepview.co/p/progress-predictions-2025-robots-avs-and-technical-advancements
- Animal intelligence: https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/how-intelligence-is-measured-in-the-animal-kingdom
Outline
0:00 – Intro
12:05 – Neural networks VS artificial neural networks
19:19 – Efficiency in intelligence
35:25 – Advancements in one, advancements in the other
43:46 – Being curious in the age of AI
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