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#106 – Matt Botvinick: Neuroscience, Psychology, and AI at DeepMind
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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.
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OUTLINE:
– Introduction
– How much of the brain do we understand?
– Psychology
– The paradox of the human brain
– Cognition is a function of the environment
– Prefrontal cortex
– Information processing in the brain
– Meta-reinforcement learning
– Dopamine
– Neuroscience and AI research
– Human side of AI
– Dopamine and reinforcement learning
– Can we create an AI that a human can love?
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