Episode · Dwarkesh Podcast · 2025-12-30
Dwarkesh Patel & Adam Marblestone: books mentioned on Dwarkesh Podcast
Adam Marblestone — AI is missing something fundamental about the brain
Adam Marblestone is CEO of Convergent Research. He’s had a very interesting past life: he was a research scientist at Google Deepmind on their neuroscience team and has worked on everything from brain-computer interfaces to quantum computing to nanotech and even formal mathematics.
Adam Marblestone recommended A Brief History of Intelligence by Max Bennett, and discussed The Brain from Inside Out by György Buzsáki MD and others.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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A Brief History of Intelligence
A Brief History of Intelligence by Max Bennett is an exploration of how learning mechanisms and cognitive abilities have evolved across vastly different biological species over millions of years.
Recommended“I think you've read this great book, A Brief History of Intelligence, right? I think this is a really good book. Lots of AI researchers think this is a really good book it seems.”
Where to get it
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The Brain from Inside Out
Discussed“György Buzsáki is a neuroscientist who has a book called The Brain from the Inside Out where he basically says all our psychology concepts, AI concepts, all this stuff is just made-up stuff.”
Where to get it
