Episode · Lex Fridman Podcast · 2019-01-19
Books mentioned on Tomaso Poggio: Brains, Minds, and Machines
Tomaso Poggio is a professor at MIT and is the director of the Center for Brains, Minds, and Machines. Cited over 100,000 times, his work has had a profound impact on our understanding of the nature of intelligence, in both biological neural networks and artificial ones.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Flowers for Algernon
Flowers for Algernon by David Rogers and Daniel Keyes is a poignant science fiction novel that follows a mentally disabled man who undergoes experimental surgery to drastically enhance his intelligence, mirroring the journey of a laboratory mouse named Algernon.
Discussed“so you've mentioned flowers of Algren odd oh yeah this is a story that inspires you in your childhood as this story of a mouse and human achieving genius-level intelligence and then understanding what was happening while slowly becoming not intelligent again in this tragedy of intelligence and losing intelligence”
