Matt Botvinick - Holy Grail Questions at the Intersection of Neuroscience and AI

BrainMind Summit at MIT -

Matthew Botvinick is Director of Neuroscience Research at DeepMind and Honorary Professor at the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit at University College London. Dr. Botvinick completed his undergraduate studies at Stanford University in 1989 and medical studies at Cornell University in 1994, before completing a PhD in psychology and cognitive neuroscience at Carnegie Mellon University in 2001. He served as Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania until 2007 and Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Princeton University until joining DeepMind in 2016. Dr. Botvinick’s work at DeepMind straddles the boundaries between cognitive psychology, computational and experimental neuroscience and artificial intelligence.

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Trajectories are all fueled by some element of “faith.” The symbols will “always” be insufficient...fueling systemic entropy “within.” The simplicity and/or complexity of applied representations is more than a matter of interpretation or perspective...determinism aside? What does it look like from “everywhere?”