Episode #222
Jay McClelland: Neural Networks and the Emergence of Cognition
Jay McClelland is a cognitive scientist at Stanford.
What this episode covers
Jay McClelland is a cognitive scientist at Stanford.
Where to start
Learning representations by back-propagating errors
Jay McClelland and Lex Fridman discuss learning representations by back-propagating errors.
Start at 30:02
Dave Rumelhart and cognitive modeling
Jay McClelland and Lex Fridman discuss dave rumelhart and cognitive modeling.
Start at 36:27
Noam Chomsky and linguistic cognition
Jay McClelland and Lex Fridman discuss noam chomsky and linguistic cognition.
Start at 1:48:57
People and topics
Key takeaways
- Introduction
- Beauty in neural networks
- Darwin and evolution
- The origin of intelligence