In the first bonus episode of RAPIDSFire, I sit down with Rachel Allen, who holds a PhD in Neuroscience. We talk about how neural net models relate to and differ from real brains, ethical issues around conscience machines and their training, and what steps might be taken to get closer to true thinking machines. I had a lot of fun recording this, and I hope you enjoy it! 


Reconstructing visual experiences from brain activity evoked by natural movies


https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3326357/


Dead Salmon Study


http://prefrontal.org/files/posters/Bennett-Salmon-2009.jpg


Existential Comics - Turing Tests and Other Things of That Nature


https://existentialcomics.com/comic/357


Spiteful Octopi


https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ecy.3266


Corrupted Microsoft Language Model


https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/artificial-intelligence/machine-learning/in-2016-microsofts-racist-chatbot-revealed-the-dangers-of-online-conversation