McGill AI Podcast

Blake Richards: Parallels Between the Brain & AI

Kaustav Das Sharma, Cole Killian, Bonnie Li, Himanshu Ranka Season 1 Episode 2

Professor Blake Richards is a leading researcher at the intersection of neuroscience and AI. He is an assistant professor at McGill, a Canada CIFAR AI Chair, and a core faculty member at Mila. His research explores the general principles of learning and memory in neural networks and tries to understand how real and artificial brains can optimise behaviour.