Jay McClelland, a cognitive scientist at Stanford, sits down for an amazing conversation with Lex Fridman.
OUTLINE:
- 0:00 – Introduction
- 0:43 – Beauty in neural networks
- 5:02 – Darwin and evolution
- 10:47 – The origin of intelligence
- 17:29 – Explorations in cognition
- 23:33 – Learning representations by back-propagating errors
- 29:58 – Dave Rumelhart and cognitive modeling
- 43:01 – Connectionism
- 1:05:54 – Geoffrey Hinton
- 1:07:49 – Learning in a neural network
- 1:24:42 – Mathematics & reality
- 1:31:50 – Modeling intelligence
- 1:42:28 – Noam Chomsky and linguistic cognition
- 1:56:49 – Advice for young people
- 2:07:56 – Psychiatry and exploring the mind
- 2:20:35 – Legacy
- 2:26:24 – Meaning of life
