Stanford HAI
HAI Denning Co-Director Fei-Fei Li’s guest is Bill Newsome, the Harman Family Provostial Professor of Neurobiology at the Stanford University School of Medicine and the Vincent V.C. Woo Director of the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute.
Li and Newsome discuss the role of computation in neuroscience, the challenges computational neuroscientists can address, AI’s motivation spectrum, and the complicated definition of consciousness when it comes to both natural intelligence and artificial.
Discussion contents:
Three roles of computation in neuroscience: 1:19
The challenges in need of computational neuroscientists: 3:32
Can understandings of the brain at the molecular level help us build neural networks? 6:59
The role of cognitive neuroscience in building AI: 13:32
How AI is more than a tool to enable the understanding of biology: 23:54
Whether AI motivation can expand beyond quantifiable objectives: 29:32
Ways to consider consciousness and intelligence: 37:00