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:00:00 - Introduction03:29 - How much of the brain do we understand?14:26 - Psychology22:53 - The paradox of the human brain32:23 - Cognition is a function of the environment39:34 - Prefrontal cortex53:27 - Information processing in the brain1:00:11 - Meta-reinforcement learning1:15:18 - Dopamine1:19:01 - Neuroscience and AI research1:23:37 - Human side of AI1:39:56 - Dopamine and reinforcement learning1:53:07 - Can we create an AI that a human can love?