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Akseli Ilmanen

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The Embodied AI Podcast

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We learn about the world through interaction - through a body. The Embodied AI Podcast believes artificial intelligence should do the same. I interview experts in philosophy, neuroscience, artificial intelligence, robotics, linguistics and more. Join me on a journey from symbolic AI to deep learning, from information processing to distributed cognition, from Wittgenstein to Natural Language Processing, from phenomenology to robots, from x to y, you decide!

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

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...

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

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...

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

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)....

#4 Beren Millidge: Reinforcement Learning through Active Inference

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...

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

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...

#2 Barbara Webb: Insect Robotics

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...

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

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...

Welcome to the Embodied AI Podcast!

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...

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