Learning State Representations with Yael Niv - TWiML Talk #92
The TWIML AI Podcast (formerly This Week in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence)
English - December 22, 2017 16:29 - 47 minutes - ★★★★★ - 323 ratingsTechnology News Tech News machinelearning artificialintelligence datascience samcharrington tech technology thetwimlaipocast thisweekinmachinelearning twiml twimlaipodcast Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
This week on the podcast we’re featuring a series of conversations from the NIPs conference in Long Beach, California. I attended a bunch of talks and learned a ton, organized an impromptu roundtable on Building AI Products, and met a bunch of great people, including some former TWiML Talk guests. In this episode I speak with Yael Niv, professor of neuroscience and psychology at Princeton University. Yael joined me after her invited talk on “Learning State Representations.” In this interview Yael and I explore the relationship between neuroscience and machine learning. In particular, we discusses the importance of state representations in human learning, some of her experimental results in this area, and how a better understanding of representation learning can lead to insights into machine learning problems such as reinforcement and transfer learning. Did I mention this was a nerd alert show? I really enjoyed this interview and I know you will too. Be sure to send over any thoughts or feedback via the show notes page at twimlai.com/talk/92.