The Theory of a Thousand Brains

Out-of-Pocket is a healthcare education company founded by Nikhil Krishnan that helps people understand how healthcare works and how to navigate it in practice. In this episode, a16z investing partner Jay Rughani and Nikhil discuss why health insurance is losing its role as the d ...  Show more

Cofounders Jeremy Wohlwend and Gabriele Corso join the a16z podcast to discuss the launch of Boltz, a public benefit company building AI infrastructure for molecular biology. The conversation explains how breakthroughs following AlphaFold moved the field beyond protein structure ...  Show more

efJf Hawkins’ 2021 book A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence, focuses on the neocortex and how it helps us to understand the world around us, before examining the future of artificial intelligence, based on what we already know about the brain.In this final episode of ...  Show more

Philosophers have long pondered the concept of a brain in a jar, hooked up to a simulated world. Though this has largely remained a thought experiment, CrowdScience listener JP wants to know if it might become reality in the not-too-distant future, with advances in stem cell r ...

Melvyn Bragg and guests examine the relationship between the mind and the brain as they discuss recent developments in Neuroscience. In the mid-19th century a doctor had a patient who had suffered a stroke. The patient was unable to speak save for one word. The word was ‘Tan’ whi ...  Show more

حلقة اليوم راح تكون الجزء الأول من سلسلة عن الذكاء الاصطناعي ، بنتكلم عنه من الناحية التقنية ، التاريخية ، الفلسفية و الخيال العلمي .. بنناقش النقاط الجدلية اللي دايم تذكر ، أيها حقيقة وأيها خزعبلات اعلامية ، بحكم ان الذكاء الاطناعي صار ملطشة ، وكل احد يزعم انه خبير ذكاء اصطناعي ...  Show more