AI Is Nothing Like a Brain, and That’s OK
May 20, 2025•19 min•Season 1Ep. 1
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Episode description
The brain’s astounding cellular diversity and networked complexity could show how to make AI better.
This is the first episode of our new weekly series The Quanta Podcast, hosted by Quanta magazine Editor-in-Chief Samir Patel. This week's guest is Yasemin Saplakoglu; she recently published "AI Is Nothing Like a Brain, and That’s OK" for Quanta's AI special package.
(If you've been a fan of Quanta Science Podcast, it will continue as 'audio edition episodes' in this same feed every other week.)
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