Brain Inspired

Neuroscience and artificial intelligence work better together. Brain inspired is a celebration and exploration of the ideas driving our progress to understand intelligence. I interview experts about their work at the interface of neuroscience, artificial intelligence, cognitive science, philosophy, psychology, and more: the symbiosis of these overlapping fields, how they inform each other, where they differ, what the past brought us, and what the future brings. Topics include computational neuroscience, supervised machine learning, unsupervised learning, reinforcement learning, deep learning, convolutional and recurrent neural networks, decision-making science, AI agents, backpropagation, credit assignment, neuroengineering, neuromorphics, emergence, philosophy of mind, consciousness, general AI, spiking neural networks, data science, and a lot more. The podcast is not produced for a general audience. Instead, it aims to educate, challenge, inspire, and hopefully entertain those intere

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Every guest on Brain Inspired

150 guests, ranked by how many people never want them back.

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   Erik Hoel
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   Anil Seth

   BI 117 Anil Seth: Being You · Oct 2021

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   Brian Christian

   BI 098 Brian Christian: The Alignment Problem · Feb 2021

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   Max Bennett

   BI 181 Max Bennett: A Brief History of Intelligence · Dec 2023

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   David Krakauer

   BI 203 David Krakauer: How To Think Like a Complexity Scientist · Jan 2025

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   Stephen Fleming

   BI 107 Steve Fleming: Know Thyself · Jun 2021

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   Ciara Greene

   BI 206 Ciara Greene: Memories Are Useful, Not Accurate · Feb 2025

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   Ellie Pavlick

   BI 163 Ellie Pavlick: The Mind of a Language Model · Mar 2023

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   Kevin Mitchell

   BI 175 Kevin Mitchell: Free Agents · 2 episodes

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    David Poeppel

    BI 176 David Poeppel Returns · Oct 2023

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    David Rosen
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    Dean Buonomano

    BI 210 Dean Buonomano: Consciousness, Time, and Organotypic Dynamics · Apr 2025

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    Doris Tsao

    BI 125 Doris Tsao, Tony Zador, Blake Richards: NAISys · Jan 2022

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    Nicole Rust

    BI 214 Nicole Rust: How To Actually Fix Brains and Minds · Jun 2025

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    Tom Griffiths

    BI 233 Tom Griffiths: The Laws of Thought · Mar 2026

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    Christopher Summerfield

    BI 159 Chris Summerfield: Natural General Intelligence · Jan 2023

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    Cristopher Moore

    BI 240 Cristopher Moore: Cognition and Computational Complexity · Jun 2026

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    Mazviita Chirimuuta

    BI 186 Mazviita Chirimuuta: The Brain Abstracted · Mar 2024

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    Nikolay Kukushkin

    BI 222 Nikolay Kukushkin: Minds and Meaning from Nature’s Ideas · Oct 2025

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    Andreas Tolias
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    Blake Richards
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    Emily M. Bender

    BI 144 Emily M. Bender and Ev Fedorenko: Large Language Models · Aug 2022

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    Jennifer Prendki

    BI 217 Jennifer Prendki: Consciousness, Life, AI, and Quantum Physics · Jul 2025

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    Ev Fedorenko
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    John Kounios

    BI 104 John Kounios and David Rosen: Creativity, Expertise, Insight · May 2021

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    Alex Gomez-Marin

    BI 192 Àlex Gómez-Marín: The Edges of Consciousness · Aug 2024

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    Alex Maier

    BI 228 Alex Maier: Laws of Consciousness · Dec 2025

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    Ali Mohebi

    BI 170 Ali Mohebi: Starting a Research Lab · 2 episodes

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    Alicia Juarrero

    BI 174 Alicia Juarrero: Context Changes Everything · Sep 2023

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    Alison Barth

    BI 243 Alison Barth: Learning as a Window to Cortex · Aug 2026

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    Alison Preston

    BI 207 Alison Preston: Schemas in our Brains and Minds · Mar 2025

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    Andrea Gambarotto

    BI 246 Andrea Gambarotto: Cognition Requires Agency · Sep 2026

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    Andrea Hiott

    BI 248 Andrea Hiott: The Navigational Approach to the Mind · Oct 2026

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    Andrew Saxe

    BI 120 James Fitzgerald, Andrew Saxe, Weinan Sun: Optimizing Memories · Nov 2021

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    Ann Kennedy

    BI 221 Ann Kennedy: Theory Beneath the Cortical Surface · Sep 2025

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    Anne Collins

    BI 154 Anne Collins: Learning with Working Memory · Nov 2022

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    Aran Nayebi

    BI 209 Aran Nayebi: The NeuroAI Turing Test · Apr 2025

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    Ben Engelhard
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    Brian Butterworth

    BI 137 Brian Butterworth: Can Fish Count? · May 2022

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    Cameron Buckner

    BI 142 Cameron Buckner: The New DoGMA · Jul 2022

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