What’s the secret to intelligence (in brains and AI)? with Ramesh RaskarEpisode 121← All Episodes

Is AI going to go the same way as computing: from colossal LLMs owned by a few companies to billions of networked AI agents? How does that parallel one of the great underappreciated secrets of the human brain? Join this week with guest MIT Media Lab professor (and AI-decentralizer) Ramesh Raskar.

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David Eagleman. The human brain runs on conflict. Wired Magazine. 2011.

Eagleman DM. Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain. New York: Pantheon. 2011.

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