#76 – John Hopfield: Physics View of the Mind and Neurobiology

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Lex Fridman

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🗓️ 29 February 2020

⏱️ 73 minutes

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John Hopfield is professor at Princeton, whose life’s work weaved beautifully through biology, chemistry, neuroscience, and physics. Most crucially, he saw the messy world of biology through the piercing eyes of a physicist. He is perhaps best known for his work on associate neural networks, now known as Hopfield networks that were one of the early ideas that catalyzed the development of the modern field of deep learning. EPISODE LINKS: Now What? article: http://bit.ly/3843LeU John wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hopfield Books mentioned: – Einstein’s Dreams: https://amzn.to/2PBa96X – Mind is Flat: https://amzn.to/2I3YB84 This conversation is part of the Artificial Intelligence podcast. If you would like

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0:00.0	The following is a conversation with John Hopfield, professor Princeton, whose life's work
0:06.0	weaved beautifully through biology, chemistry, neuroscience, and physics.
0:11.9	Most crucially, he saw the messy world of biology through the piercing eyes of a physicist.
0:18.4	He's perhaps best known for his work on associative neural networks, now known as Hopfield
0:23.8	networks that were one of the early ideas that catalyzed the development of the modern
0:28.8	field of deep learning.
0:31.4	As his 2019 Franklin Medal in Physics award states, he applied concepts of theoretical
0:37.0	physics to provide new insights on important biological questions in a variety of areas,
0:42.7	including genetics and neuroscience with significant impact on machine learning.
0:48.1	And as John says in his 2018 article titled, Now What His Accomplishments Have Often Come
0:55.1	About by asking that very question, Now What An Often Responding By Major Change of Direction.
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