I'm joined today by Prof. Konrad Körding of the University of Pennsylvania, a world-leading researcher on links between biological neuroscience and A.I. He also leads Neuromatch Academy, a super cool group-based deep learning school.

Neuromatch is an innovative, hands-on program for learning deep learning that matches students with similar interests, languages, and time zones into tight-knit study teams. This matching approach is wildly successful, with 86% of students completing the program, compared to a 10% industry average.

In the first half of the episode, we go over the details of the Neuromatch curriculum, providing you with a survey of all of the state-of-the-art deep learning approaches. The second half is a mind-blowing exploration of the limits of artificial neural networks today and how incorporating more biological neuroscience may enable machines to develop artificial general intelligence (AGI) — i.e., machines that learn as well as humans do.

Listen or watch here.