Artificial Intelligence and You

How do our brains produce thinking? My guest is an expert in cognitive neuroscience, the field that aims to answer that question. Paul Reber is professor of psychology at Northwestern University, Director of Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, and head of the Brain, Behavior, and Cognition program, focusing on human memory—how the brain encodes, stores, and retrieves information. With a PhD from Carnegie Mellon, his work has been cited over 6,000 times. He has served as Associate Editor for the journal Cortex and contributed to NIH review panels. His recent projects explore applications of memory science in skill training and cognitive aging. If we want to build AI that reproduces human intelligence, we need to understand that as well as possible.

In part 1, we talk about distinguishing neuroscience from cognitive neuroscience, the physical structure of the brain, how we learn physical skills, comparing the brain to AI, and foundational problems in neuroscience.

All this plus our usual look at today's AI headlines.

Transcript and URLs referenced at HumanCusp Blog.