Matt Botvinick is the Director of Neuroscience Research at DeepMind. He is a brilliant cross-disciplinary mind navigating effortlessly between cognitive psychology, computational neuroscience, and artificial intelligence.

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Here’s the outline of the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time.

OUTLINE:

00:00 – Introduction

03:29 – How much of the brain do we understand?

14:26 – Psychology

22:53 – The paradox of the human brain

32:23 – Cognition is a function of the environment

39:34 – Prefrontal cortex

53:27 – Information processing in the brain

1:00:11 – Meta-reinforcement learning

1:15:18 – Dopamine

1:19:01 – Neuroscience and AI research

1:23:37 – Human side of AI

1:39:56 – Dopamine and reinforcement learning

1:53:07 – Can we create an AI that a human can love?