Xaq Pitkow

Xaq Pitkow, director of the Lab for the Algorithmic Brain at Carnegie Mellon University, dives into the principles of cognition and their applications. He shares insights on 'inverse rational control,' illustrating how organisms tackle tasks using strategies that often diverge from optimal solutions. The conversation covers the role of probabilistic graph networks in brain computations and introduces a new ecological neuroscience project with collaborative efforts. Xaq emphasizes the intersection of neuroscience and AI, advocating for a diverse range of models to understand cognitive processes.