Welcome to the Artificial Intelligence Podcast. My name is Lex Friedman. I am a research scientist at MIT.

If you would like to skip ahead to the conversation of Kristalko, I started introducing him

at about the one minute and thirty second mark. This podcast is an extension of the courses

on deep learning, autonomous vehicles, and artificial general intelligence that I've taught and organized.

It is not only about machine learning, robotics, or neuroscience, or philosophy, or any one technical field.

It considers all these avenues of thought in a way that is hopefully accessible to everyone.

The aim here is to explore the nature of human and machine intelligence, the big picture

of understanding the human mind and creating echoes of it in the machine.

To me, that is one of our civilization's most challenging and exciting scientific journeys into the unknown.

I will first repost parts of previous YouTube conversations and lecture Q&As that can be listened to without video.

If you want to see the video version, please go to my YouTube channel.

My username is there on Twitter and everywhere else is Lex Friedman, spelled F-R-I-D without the E.

So reach out and connect if you find these conversations interesting.

In this episode, I talk with Kristalko, who is one of the seminal figures in the fields of neurobiology,

neuroscience, and generally in the study of consciousness.

He is the president and chief scientific officer of the Allen Institute of Brain Science in Seattle.

From 1986 until 2013, he was a professor at Caltech.

His work has received over 100,000 citations.

He is the author of several books, including Consciousness, Confessions of a Romantic Reductionist.

His research, his writing, his ideas, have had a big impact on the scientific community and the general public.

In the way we think about consciousness and in the way we think of ourselves as human beings.

I enjoyed and learned a lot from this conversation. I hope you do as well.

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