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Jun 29, 20221 min read

#4 Beren Millidge: Reinforcement Learning through Active Inference

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

May 23, 20221 min read

#3 Mark Sprevak: 4E, The Chinese Room Argument, Predictive Coding

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

May 8, 20223 min read

Getting to know AI

‘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...

Mar 11, 20221 min read

#2 Barbara Webb: Insect Robotics

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

Feb 18, 20221 min read

#1 Ron Chrisley: Embodied AI, Non-Conceptual Content, AI Creativity

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

Feb 9, 20223 min read

Shooting your shot: Using reinforcement learning approaches to study place learning

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...

Dec 14, 20211 min read

Welcome to the Embodied AI Podcast!

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

Mar 1, 202118 min read

Foucault, social media and climate change deniers: Disciplining abnormality through internet memes

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

Feb 27, 202110 min read

What is real and what is observable are not the same

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

Nov 5, 20205 min read

Drop-outs: Not just a Problem in Schools

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....

Apr 23, 20206 min read

Spotting the Snowflake Paradox in the Novel Fahrenheit 451

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

Apr 15, 20204 min read

The Gender Pay Gap Has Its Roots Way Below the Glass Ceiling (revived)

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