Neuroscience and AI - What Artificial Intelligence Teaches Us About the Brain and Vice Versa

Explore a fascinating 28-minute lecture examining the intersection of neuroscience and artificial intelligence, delivered by Surya Ganguli, a leading expert from Stanford's Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute. Delve into how modern AI systems like DALL-E, ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini are reshaping our understanding of machine intelligence, while discovering what neuroscience reveals about making AI systems as adaptable, efficient, and resilient as the human brain. Learn from Ganguli's groundbreaking work on diffusion models and their role in the current AI revolution, as well as his research on complex emergent properties in biological and artificial neural networks. Gain insights from his unique perspective as both a member of the Neuroscience Theory Center and a Senior Fellow at Stanford's Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, supported by recent research publications on retinal neural coding, neural scaling laws, and cortical layer-specific dynamics in perception.