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.

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OUTLINE:
0:00 - Introduction
3:29 - How much of the brain do we understand?
14:26 - Psychology
22:53 - The paradox of the human brain
32:23 - Cognition is a function of the environment
39:34 - Prefrontal cortex
53:27 - Information processing in the brain
1:00:11 - Meta-reinforcement learning
1:15:18 - Dopamine
1:19:01 - Neuroscience and AI research
1:23:37 - Human side of AI
1:39:56 - Dopamine and reinforcement learning
1:53:07 - Can we create an AI that a human can love?

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