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

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   Ole Jensen

   BI 160 Ole Jensen: Rhythms of Cognition · Feb 2023

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   Panayiota Poirazi

   BI 167 Panayiota Poirazi: AI Brains Need Dendrites · May 2023

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   Patryk Laurent

   BI 129 Patryk Laurent: Learning from the Real World · Mar 2022

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   Paul Rosenbloom

   BI 158 Paul Rosenbloom: Cognitive Architectures · Jan 2023

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   Peter Robin Hiesinger

   BI 124 Peter Robin Hiesinger: The Self-Assembling Brain · Jan 2022

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   Peter Stratton

   BI 184 Peter Stratton: Synthesize Neural Principles · Feb 2024

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   Rajesh Rao

   BI 201 Rajesh Rao: From Predictive Coding to Brain Co-Processors · Dec 2024

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   Randal Koene

   BI 103 Randal Koene and Ken Hayworth: The Road to Mind Uploading · Apr 2021

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   Randy Gallistel

   BI 126 Randy Gallistel: Where Is the Engram? · Jan 2022

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    Robert Wilson
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    Rodolphe Sepulchre

    BI 143 Rodolphe Sepulchre: Mixed Feedback Control · Aug 2022

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    Romain Brette

    BI 235 Romain Brette: The Brain, in Theory · Apr 2026

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    Sanjeev Arora

    BI 105 Sanjeev Arora: Off the Convex Path · May 2021

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    Sarah Robins

    BI 157 Sarah Robins: Philosophy of Memory · Jan 2023

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    Sri Ramaswamy

    BI 131 Sri Ramaswamy and Jie Mei: Neuromodulation-aware DNNs · Mar 2022

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    Steve Byrnes

    BI 151 Steve Byrnes: Brain-like AGI Safety · Oct 2022

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    Steve Grossberg

    BI 115 Steve Grossberg: Conscious Mind, Resonant Brain · Oct 2021

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    Steve Potter

    BI 101 Steve Potter: Motivating Brains In and Out of Dishes · Apr 2021

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    Tatiana Engel

    BI 226 Tatiana Engel: The High and Low Dimensional Brain · Dec 2025

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    Tim Vogels
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    Tomaso Poggio

    BI 229 Tomaso Poggio: Principles of Intelligence and Learning · Jan 2026

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    Tomás Ryan

    BI 127 Tomás Ryan: Memory, Instinct, and Forgetting · Feb 2022

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    Tony Zador

    BI 198 Tony Zador: Neuroscience Principles to Improve AI · Nov 2024

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    Vicente Raja

    BI 223 Vicente Raja: Ecological Psychology Motifs in Neuroscience · Oct 2025

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    Vijay Namboodiri

    BI 194 Vijay Namboodiri & Ali Mohebi: Dopamine Keeps Getting More Interesting · Sep 2024

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    Weinan Sun
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    William B. Miller

    BI 149 William B. Miller: Cell Intelligence · Oct 2022

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    Woodrow Shew

    BI 216 Woodrow Shew and Keith Hengen: The Nature of Brain Criticality · Jul 2025

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    Xaq Pitkow

    BI 219 Xaq Pitkow: Principles and Constraints of Cognition · Aug 2025

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    Xiao-Jing Wang

    BI 215 Xiao-Jing Wang: Theoretical Neuroscience Comes of Age · Jul 2025

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