#106 – Matt Botvinick: Neuroscience, Psychology, and AI at DeepMind

About this episode

<p>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.</p> <p>Support this podcast by supporting these sponsors:<br /> &#8211; The Jordan Harbinger Show: <a href="https://www.jordanharbinger.com/lex">https://www.jordanharbinger.com/lex</a><br /> &#8211; Magic Spoon: <a href="https://magicspoon.com/lex">https://magicspoon.com/lex</a> and use code LEX at checkout<span style="font-size: 1rem;"><br /> </span></p> <p>If you would like to get more information about this podcast go to <a href="https://lexfridman.com/ai">https://lexfridman.com/ai</a> or connect with @lexfridman on <a href="https://twitter.com/lexfridman">Twitter</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/lexfridman/">LinkedIn</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/lexfridman">Facebook</a>, <a href="https://medium.com/@lexfridman">Medium</a>, or <a href="https://www.youtube.com/lexfridman">YouTube</a> where you can watch the video versions of these conversations. If you enjoy the podcast, please rate it 5 stars on <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/artificial-intelligence/id1434243584">Apple Podcasts</a>, follow on <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/2MAi0BvDc6GTFvKFPXnkCL">Spotify</a>, or support it on <a href="https://www.patreon.com/lexfridman">Patreon</a>.</p> <p>Here&#8217;s the outline of the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time.</p> <p>OUTLINE:<br /> 00:00 &#8211; Introduction<br /> 03:29 &#8211; How much of the brain do we understand?<br /> 14:26 &#8211; Psychology<br /> 22:53 &#8211; The paradox of the human brain<br /> 32:23 &#8211; Cognition is a function of the environment<br /> 39:34 &#8211; Prefrontal cortex<br /> 53:27 &#8211; Information processing in the brain<br /> 1:00:11 &#8211; Meta-reinforcement learning<br /> 1:15:18 &#8211; Dopamine<br /> 1:19:01 &#8211; Neuroscience and AI research<br /> 1:23:37 &#8211; Human side of AI<br /> 1:39:56 &#8211; Dopamine and reinforcement learning<br /> 1:53:07 &#8211; Can we create an AI that a human can love?</p>