Beren is a postdoc in Oxford with a background in machine learning and computational neuroscience. He is interested in Active Inference...

Mark is a philosopher of computation and cognitive science at Edinburgh. We start off the conversation exploring why we shouldn't...

‘Select all squares with traffic lights’ is a common online prompt to prove that you’re not a robot. It is also a typical task in machine...

Barbara is a professor of Biorobotics at Edinburgh. We start with a quick philosophical exploration of robots using chairs, James...

In the first episode of the Embodied AI Podcast, Ron tells us about his journey from Stanford to machine learning and the people that...

Would you be able to find a café after just one previous visit? The answer for human and non-human animals is yes: they have the ability...

A short episode, where I discuss what the podcast is about. Related reading Ludwig Wittgenstein: Intro - https://plato.stanford.edu/entri...

Internet memes about climate change deniers are typically seen as harmless. Yet, when understanding the denialist critique of climate...

Let's imagine the following thought experiment. A primary school child finds out that besides all the other colours she is aware of,...

Are drop-out rates in therapy the new “elephant in the room”? No, it’s probably worse; the elephant has been standing there for decades....

Ray Bradbury, the author of Fahrenheit 451, envisioned how the desire of “snowflakes” to avoid confrontational ideas would lead to book...

Everyone disagrees on the ‘right numbers’ for the gender pay gap. But do we even know what causes it? Eurostat defines the unadjusted...