#105 – Robert Langer: Edison of Medicine

Robert Langer is a professor at MIT and one of the most cited researchers in history, specializing in biotechnology fields of drug delivery systems and tissue engineering. He has bridged theory and practice by being a key member and driving force in launching many successful biotech companies out of MIT.

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Here’s the outline of the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time.

OUTLINE:
00:00 – How much of the brain do we understand?
10:57 – Psychology
19:23 – The paradox of the human brain
28:54 – Cognition is a function of the environment
36:05 – Prefrontal cortex
49:57 – Information processing in the brain
56:42 – Meta-reinforcement learning
1:11:48 – Dopamine
1:15:32 – Neuroscience and AI research
1:20:08 – Human side of AI
1:37:01 – Dopamine and reinforcement learning
1:50:12 – Can we create an AI that a human can love?