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Please join my mailing list here 👉 https://briankeating.com/list to win a meteorite 💥David Sussillo spent years training neural networks at Google Brainand now leads research at Meta Reality Labs. His verdict on thepath to artificial consciousness might surprise you.In this conversation, we discuss why scaling transformers alonewon't produce conscious AI, how recurrent neural networks differfrom the transformer architectures powering today's LLMs, theFORCE algorithm he developed to train RNNs, what his work onMeta's EMG wristband reveals about AI and biological signals,Rich Sutton's Bitter Lesson and whether we're locked into aGPU-transformer paradigm, and why studying the brain may bethe only way out of AI's current limitations.David is also the author of Emergence, a braided memoir thattells the story of his path from foster care to the frontierof neuroscience and AI research.David Sussillo is a research scientist at Meta Reality Labsand an adjunct professor at Stanford University. He completedhis PhD at Columbia University under Larry Abbott and previouslyworked at Google Brain.Key Takeaways: ➡️ Follow David Sussillo 🌐 Website / Research: Meta Reality Labs 📚 Emergence (memoir): https://www.amazon.com/Emergence-Memoir-Boyhood-Computation-Mysteries/dp/1538768577 🎓 Stanford / Columbia / Carnegie Mellon Alumni✍️ Email: [email protected] 🏄♂️ Twitter: https://x.com/SussilloDavidJoin this channel to get access to perks like monthly Office Hours:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmXH_moPhfkqCk6S3b9RWuw/join📚 Get my books:Think Like a Nobel Prize Winner, with productivity tips from 9 Nobel Prize winners: https://a.co/d/03ezQFuFocus Like a Nobel Prize Winner, with life-changing interviews with 9 Nobel Prizewinners: https://a.co/d/hi50U9UMy tell-all cosmic memoir Losing the Nobel Prize: http://amzn.to/2sa5UpAThe first-ever audiobook from Galileo: Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems: Ptolemaic and Copernican https://a.co/d/iZPi9UnFollow me to ask questions of my guests:🏄♂️ Twitter: https://twitter.com/DrBrianKeating🔔 Subscribe https://www.youtube.com/DrBrianKeating?sub_confirmation=1📝 Join my mailing list; just click here http://briankeating.com/list✍️ Detailed Blog posts here: https://briankeating.com/blog🎙️ Listen on audio-only platforms: https://briankeating.com/podcast#universe #podcast #briankeating #intotheimpossible #science #astronomy #cosmology #cosmicmicrowavebackground #intotheimpossible #briankeating Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
