Episode · Lex Fridman Podcast · 2020-07-03
Books mentioned on #106 – Matt Botvinick: Neuroscience, Psychology, and AI at DeepMind
Matt Botvinick is the Director of Neuroscience Research at DeepMind. He is a brilliant cross-disciplinary mind navigating effortlessly between cognitive psychology, computational neuroscience, and artificial intelligence.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Deep Undercover
Deep Undercover by Jack Barsky and Cindy Coloma is a riveting memoir that chronicles the extraordinary life of an undercover KGB sleeper agent operating inside the United States during the height of the Cold War.
Recommended“I recently listened to his conversation with Jack Barsky former sleeper agent for the KGB in the 80s and author of deep undercover which is a memoir that paints yet another interesting perspective on the Cold War era”
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The Language Instinct
Steven Pinker's acclaimed pop-science book The Language Instinct argues that human language is an innate biological faculty shaped by evolution rather than a mere cultural invention.
Discussed“this book in language now with Steven Pinker and so on this looking generally at human progress and there's so many ways the human progress can happen with AI”
