What if robots thought like animals?

The Times Tech Podcast

Will Morley

Business, Unknown, Technology

4.9 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

If we made robots think more like animals, how clever could they be? This week we hear from David Rajan, CEO of Opteran, a pioneering AI company which is reverse engineering biological brains to create a "radical new scientific approach to doing AI". And, Danny, the cat and the Tesla.

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0:00.0	What are you doing in Norfolk?
0:05.6	Walking and reading and, you know, crabbing.
0:09.9	Oh.
0:10.5	There's a lot of crabbing in North Norfolk.
0:12.9	Do you actually eat the crabs?
0:14.4	No, no, you don't.
0:16.0	The children put bits of bread on strings, dangle them in the water,
0:19.9	and then they collect them in buckets.
0:21.6	And then what happens?
0:22.6	Let's throw them back.
0:23.6	Yeah, look at them.
0:25.6	After they've been like, you know, chock full of like bad nutrition-free white bread, hopefully they survive.
0:31.6	Poked and prodded.
0:33.6	So, Katie, I have a very important question.
0:35.6	Go on.
0:36.6	When was the last time that you engaged in 10x thinking?
0:42.3	10x thinking.
0:44.6	I mean, I don't think I ever engage in 10x thinking.
0:49.9	That's your problem.
0:50.8	What is it?
0:51.4	And where did you hear that?
0:53.1	Like, how can you make something at least 10 times better or bigger or work more efficiently
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