Tomaso Poggio: Brains, Minds, and Machines | Lex Fridman Podcast #13

ℹ️ EPISODE INFO

Released

January 19, 2019

Duration

1h 20m

Channel

Lex Fridman Podcast

Watch on YouTube

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🎤 SPEAKERS

• Lex Fridman

  host

• Tomaso Poggio

  guest

• Narrator

  other

🧾 EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of Lex Fridman Podcast, featuring Lex Fridman and Tomaso Poggio, Tomaso Poggio: Brains, Minds, and Machines | Lex Fridman Podcast #13 explores tomaso Poggio on Intelligence, Brains, and the Limits of AI Lex Fridman and Tomaso Poggio explore the nature of intelligence by connecting modern AI to neuroscience, evolution, and human cognition. Poggio argues that understanding the brain—especially the visual cortex and cortical architecture—is likely essential for the biggest future breakthroughs in AI, even though current deep learning only loosely mimics biology. They discuss compositionality, overparameterized deep networks, and why today’s systems still lack true scene understanding, common sense, and human-like sample efficiency. The conversation ranges into ethics, consciousness, AGI timelines, and what it takes to do great science, emphasizing curiosity, fun, and collaboration.

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