Episode · Lex Fridman Podcast · 2019-01-19

Books mentioned on Tomaso Poggio: Brains, Minds, and Machines

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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.

Lex Fridman discussed Flowers for Algernon by David Rogers and others.

Books mentioned, in the order they came up

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   Flowers for Algernon

   David Rogers, Daniel Keyes · at 1:18:36

   Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes is a poignant science fiction novel about Charlie Gordon, a man with an intellectual disability who undergoes an experimental surgical procedure to dramatically enhance his intelligence, mirroring the earlier cognitive boost 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”

   Lex Fridman Tomaso Poggio: Brains, Minds, and Machines 2019-01-19 Listen at 1:18:36

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