"the following is a conversation with the leap george a researcher at the intersection of neuroscience and artificial intelligence co-founder of vicarius with scott phoenix and formerly co-founder of n..."

"understand the brain in order to build it yes if you want to build the brain we definitely need to understand how it works so blue brain or henry markham's project is trying to build a brain without u..."

"aspect of the brain are useful in this whole endeavor which by the way i should say you're you're both the neuroscientists and and ai person i guess the dream is to both understand the brain and to bu..."

"so this is a classic example in uh uh graphical models probabilistic models um so if you what are those um okay um i think it's useful to mention because we'll talk about them more yeah yeah so neural..."

"how's that all encoded in the brain like where's the storage of information are we talking just maybe to get it a little bit more specific is it in the hardware of the actual connections is it in uh c..."

"what can we say what is the paper that you're working on propose about the ideas around these cortical micro circuits so this is a fully functional model for the micro circuits of the visual cortex so..."

"so one of the first applications of that we showed in the paper was to crack uh text-based captchas what are captures by the way by the way one of the most awesome like the people don't use this term ..."

"so you know well let me ask you this kind of touchy question i have to i i've spoken with uh your friend colleague jeff hawkins too i mean he's uh i have to kind of ask there is a bit of whenever you ..."

"really understand the full uh the full uh biophysics or whatever of how the brain learns exactly exactly well let me ask a sergeant like what's our what's your sense what's our best understanding of h..."

"so that let's let's go right into the cortical micro circuits right back so what uh what are these ideas beyond recursive cortical network that uh you're looking at now so we have made a you know pass..."

"uh what what other interesting problems are there the open problems and brain inspired uh approaches that you're thinking about i mean everything is over right like you know no no no problem is uh sol..."

"if we could uh talk about gpt3 a little bit i think it's an interesting thought-provoking set of ideas that open ai is pushing forward i think it's good for us to talk about the limits and the possibi..."

"how do we get memory so yeah we have another piece of work that which came out recently on how do you form episodic memories and and form abstractions from them uh and we haven't figured out a you kno..."

"there's a guy named elon musk there's a company called neurolink and there's a general field called brain computing interfaces yeah um it's kind of uh interface between your two loves yes the brain an..."

"cognition a little bit so like reasoning we haven't mentioned the other c word which is consciousness uh do you ever think about that one do is that useful at all uh in this whole context of what it t..."

"wonder world-class researchers such as yourself what kind of books technical fiction philosophical were had an impact on you in your life and maybe ones you could prob possibly recommend that others r..."

"more and more changing and and students can take that into their own hands like learn to program i feel like everybody should learn to program because it uh like everyone in the sciences because it em..."

"culturally popular i think that's i that's beautifully put i don't think there's a better way to end it delete i'm so honored that you you show up here and waste your time with me it's been an awesome..."