Let's Talk AI - AI and Neuroscience with Chris Eliasmith

Guest: Chris Eliasmith is the current director of the Centre for Theoretical Neuroscience and head of the Computational Neuroscience Research Group (CNRG) within the same institution. His interdisciplinary background in engineering, philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience is reflected in his diverse research interests. He primarily focuses on integrating neural and psychological explanations of behavior and constructing large-scale brain models. Additionally, he has contributed to neuromorphic engineering, scientific models and theories, computation theories, dynamical systems, and statistical modeling. His extensive academic biography explores various aspects of the mind, from philosophical critiques of cognitive science to the development of novel theories rooted in neural considerations. Alongside Charles Anderson, he devised a groundbreaking technique for constructing biologically detailed models of neural systems on a large scale. These models have been successfully applied to domains such as rat navigation, working memory, lamprey swimming, hemineglect, and language-based reasoning. His most recent publication, "How to build a brain: A neural architecture for biological cognition," published by Oxford University Press, synthesizes his prior research and showcases his expertise in the field.