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#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...

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#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)....

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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,...