#2 - Professor Keith Downing - Emergent Intelligence, Evolutionary Algorithms and Computational Neuroscience
The Biotech Podcast
12/03/20
•72m
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4 billion years ago the earth was bombarded with photons, a short while later a Tesla got launched into space. This week I'm speaking to Professor Keith Downing about emergent phenomena; which the above scenario is a prime example of, alongside the formation of a baby from a fertilised egg, economies from individual interactions and for good measure alcohol from respiring yeast!
Full synopsis:
0:00 - Intro
1:20 - Emergence and emergent systems
13:20 - Evolution and its algorithms
23:40 - Theory of facilitated variation
31:30 - Neural Information vs Synthetic Information
41:30 - Evolutionary computation vs Neural networks
48:25 - Re-enforcement learning
1:02:15 - Building intelligence - neural net architectures
1:07:00 - Advice and Book recommendations
Previous Episode
Dr Leroy Hood is a world renowned biotechnologist, geneticist and author. From the future of medicine to the human genome project, Lee tells about his fascinating life and his views for the scientific future.
Full synopsis:
0:00 - Introduction
2:24 - P4 medicine - what it is and how it will play a role in the future
17:10 - Systems Biology - A new approach for biological research
25:15 - Thriving in the future of Biology
30:25 - Noise in biology
37:04 - Neuroplasticity and coronavirus
38:37 - The institute of systems biology
42:34 - Future novels
43:24 - Developing scientific tools - How they has affected Lee and how to go about developing them
01:05:10 - The human genome project
01:12:24 - Book recommendations and advice
Next Episode
#3 - Professor Lee Cronin - Inorganic life, 'Chemputers' and Evolution
December 10, 2020
•52m
From digitising chemistry to looking for inorganic aliens, Lee gives us his fascinating insight into new, revolutionary ideas in Chemistry.
Full synopsis:
00:00 - Intro
01:00 - Defining life
13:20 - Testing life with Polyoxometalates
16:20 - The Markov model
19:48 - Inorganic life and space exploration
25:08 - Chemputers and using them to search for inorganic life
32:52 - The uses of Chemputers in the future
40:00 - Turning Chemistry into an information science
47:37 - Using past data in digital chemistry
51:09 - Extro
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