BI 198 Tony Zador: Neuroscience Principles to Improve AI

BI 198 Tony Zador: Neuroscience Principles to Improve AI

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BI 198 Tony Zador: Neuroscience Principles to Improve AI
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We’re in a huge AI hype cycle right now, for good reason, and there’s a lot of talk in the neuroscience world about whether neuroscience has anything of value to provide AI engineers – and how much value, if any, neuroscience has provided in the past.

BI 197 Karen Adolph: How Babies Learn to Move and Think

BI 197 Karen Adolph: How Babies Learn to Move and Think

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BI 197 Karen Adolph: How Babies Learn to Move and Think
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Karen Adolph runs the Infant Action Lab at NYU, where she studies how our motor behaviors develop from infancy onward. We discuss how observing babies at different stages of development illuminates how movement and cognition develop in humans, how variability and embodiment are key to that development, and the importance of studying behavior in real-world settings as opposed to restricted laboratory settings.

BI 196 Cristina Savin and Tim Vogels with Gaute Einevoll and Mikkel Lepperød

BI 196 Cristina Savin and Tim Vogels with Gaute Einevoll and Mikkel Lepperød

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BI 196 Cristina Savin and Tim Vogels with Gaute Einevoll and Mikkel Lepperød
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BI 195 Ken Harris and Andreas Tolias with Gaute Einevoll and Mikkel Lepperød

BI 195 Ken Harris and Andreas Tolias with Gaute Einevoll and Mikkel Lepperød

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BI 195 Ken Harris and Andreas Tolias with Gaute Einevoll and Mikkel Lepperød
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This is the first of two less usual episodes. I was recently in Norway at a NeuroAI workshop called Validating models: How would success in NeuroAI look like? What follows are a few recordings I made with my friend Gaute Einevoll. Gaute has been on this podcast before, but more importantly he started his own podcast a while back called Theoretical Neuroscience, which you should check out.

BI 194 Vijay Namboodiri & Ali Mohebi: Dopamine Keeps Getting More Interesting

BI 194 Vijay Namboodiri & Ali Mohebi: Dopamine Keeps Getting More Interesting

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BI 194 Vijay Namboodiri & Ali Mohebi: Dopamine Keeps Getting More Interesting
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The classic story is that dopamine is related to reward prediction errors. That is, dopamine is modulated when you expect reward and don’t get it, and/or when you don’t expect reward but do get it. Vijay calls this a “prospective” account of dopamine function, since it requires an animal to look into the future to expect a reward. Vijay has shown, however, that a retrospective account of dopamine might better explain lots of know behavioral data. This retrospective account links dopamine to how we understand causes and effects in our ongoing behavior. So in this episode, Vijay gives us a history lesson about dopamine, his newer story and why it has caused a bit of controversy, and how all of this came to be.