embodiment | Akseli Ilmanen

Nov 16, 20222 min read

#7 Tony Zador: The Embodied Turing Test, Genomic Bottlenecks, Molecular Connectomics

Tony has a lab at Cold Spring Harbour, New York. Using rodents, his lab studies the neural circuits underlying auditory decisions. He is...

Oct 25, 202234 min read

The evolution of the posterior cingulate cortex: Landmarks, autobiographical memories, and self

Many have pointed out that the neuronal dynamics in the hippocampus or entorhinal cortex enabling spatial navigation, may also facilitate...

Jul 13, 20222 min read

#6 Alex Lascarides: Linguistics from Frege to Settlers of Catan

Alex is a professor and the director of the Institution for Language, Cognition and Computation at Edinburgh. She is interested in...

Jul 5, 20221 min read

#5 Felix Hill: Grounded Language, Transformers, and DeepMind

Felix is a research scientist at DeepMind. He is interested in grounded language understanding and natural language processing (NLP)....

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...

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...