Unpopular Neuroscience

Author: Patrick D. Watson

Neuroscientists Katie McAllister and Patrick Watson discuss the nervous system, scrutinize pop neuroscience, and attempt to understand whydespite millions of published articles and advances in artificial intelligenceeveryone still seems to think the brain is a mysterious organ.
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Episode 5
Monday, 29 September, 2025

Large attentional transformers like ChatGPT generate text that seems surprisingly human-like. On this episode Katie and Patrick ask which bits of the brain work like large language models, which bits AI still hasn't figured out, and whether the difference can explain why robots can't count the vowels in a strawberry.