Matt Botvinick: Neuroscience, Psychology, and AI at DeepMind | Lex Fridman Podcast #106

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July 3, 2020

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2h 0m

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Lex Fridman Podcast

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📝 EPISODE DESCRIPTION

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. Support this podcast by supporting our sponsors:

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EPISODE LINKS: Matt's papers: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=eM916YMAAAAJ PODCAST INFO: Podcast website: https://lexfridman.com/podcast Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2lwqZIr Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2nEwCF8 RSS: https://lexfridman.com/feed/podcast/ Full episodes playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrAXtmErZgOdP_8GztsuKi9nrraNbKKp4 Clips playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrAXtmErZgOeciFP3CBCIEElOJeitOr41 OUTLINE: 0:00 - Introduction 3:29 - 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? CONNECT:

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🧾 EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of Lex Fridman Podcast, featuring Lex Fridman and Matt Botvinick, Matt Botvinick: Neuroscience, Psychology, and AI at DeepMind | Lex Fridman Podcast #106 explores DeepMind’s Matt Botvinick on brains, behavior, learning, and AI’s future Matt Botvinick discusses how cognitive psychology, neuroscience, and AI are converging into one science of mind and behavior, with the brain viewed as a computational system mapping perception to adaptive action.

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