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Podcast: Book Friends Forever
Episode: The Emergent Mind By Gaurav Suri and Jay McClelland read by Christopher Ragland
Description: A âdeeply stimulating and disarmingly accessibleâ (Robert Sapolsky, author of Determined) journey into the inner workings of human and artificial minds
When we are trying to solve a problem, what happens? We find ourselves weighing arguments, or relying on intuition, then reaching a conscious decision about what to do. What is going on behind the scenes?
In The Emergent Mind, Gaurav Suri and Jay McClelland show that our experience is the tip of an iceberg of brain activity that can be captured in an artificial neural network. Such networksâinitially developed as models of ourselvesâhave become the engines of artifici...