I sat down with Dr. Aaron Andalman, the Chief Science Officer and co-founder of Cognitiv. Andalman holds a PhD in neuroscience, and so today, we’re breaking down the gaps, connections and inspirations between AI and neuroscience; all the things we’ve learned and the many things we still don’t know.

Episode links:

• The giant squid: https://medium.com/the-quantastic-journal/from-squids-to-ai-how-neuroscience-and-physics-sparked-a-technological-revolution-06d8c291717c
• Neuroscience and AI: https://neuroscience.stanford.edu/news/neuroscience-and-ai-what-artificial-intelligence-teaches-us-about-brain-and-vice-versa
• The specter of AGI: https://www.thedeepview.co/p/how-big-tech-is-using-the-ai-race-and-the-specter-of-agi-to-cement-its-power-agi-openai-google
• Scale it up: https://www.thedeepview.co/p/progress-predictions-2025-robots-avs-and-technical-advancements
• Animal intelligence: https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/how-intelligence-is-measured-in-the-animal-kingdom

Outline

0:00 – Intro

1:45 – The roots of AI
7:12 – The different types of intelligence

12:05 – Neural networks VS artificial neural networks

19:19 – Efficiency in intelligence

23:51 – Why pursue AGI at all?
28:44 – Reinforcement learning in machines VS animals

35:25 – Advancements in one, advancements in the other

43:46 – Being curious in the age of AI

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Artificial intelligence is a complicated topic, bound by a number of complex threads — technical science, ethics, safety, regulation, neuroscience, psychology, philosophy, investment and — above all — humanity. On The Deep View: Conversations, Ian Krietzberg, host and Editor-in-Chief at The Deep View, breaks it all down, cutting through the hype to make clear what's important and why you should care.

I sat down with Brad Zamft, the co-founder and CEO of Heritable Agriculture, to take a deep dive into all the science (both biology and computer science) behind the effort to program plants, why it’s needed and what impacts it might have.

Episode links:

• Heritable Agriculture: https://heritable.ag/
• Heritable goes after indoor strawberries: https://heritable.ag/heritable-strawberries
• The sustainability threat of farming: https://vlsci.com/blog/top-issues-in-agriculture-2024/ ; https://www.epa.gov/climateimpacts/climate-change-impacts-agriculture-and-food-supply
• The risks of monoculture and monocropping: https://foodrevolution.org/blog/monocropping-monoculture/
• The promise of regenerative agriculture: https://theclimatecenter.org/our-work/research/report-the-promise-of-regenerative-agriculture/
• Farming resiliency in the face of climate change: https://sustainability.mit.edu/article/making-agriculture-more-resilient-climate-change

Outline

0:00 – Intro

2:18 – Brad’s journey to Heritable Agriculture

9:29 – Why we need programmable plants

14:23 – Challenges of biology

19:38 – Validating the models

22:14 – How does this all physically work?

31:05 – The challenge of adjusting 2 billion years of evolutionary success

34:48 – The risks of AI cracking plant DNA

39:50 – Regenerative Agriculture and tuning for resiliency in the face of climate change

47:53 – How farmers view the approach

51:59 – Tree adjustments

56:28 – The future outlook

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Artificial intelligence is a complicated topic, bound by a number of complex threads — technical science, ethics, safety, regulation, neuroscience, psychology, philosophy, investment and — above all — humanity. On The Deep View: Conversations, Ian Krietzberg, host and Editor-in-Chief at The Deep View, breaks it all down, cutting through the hype to make clear what's important and why you should care.

I sat down with Dr. Nada Sanders, a distinguished professor of supply chain management at Northeastern University, to better understand the impact that tariffs and a trade war could have on the business and field of AI.

Episode Links:

• The semiconductor pipeline: https://datacenterpost.com/ais-hardware-hunger-the-global-semiconductor-supply-chain-under-pressure/
• The latest on the tariffs and trade war: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62z54gwd22o
• Nvidia’s US push: https://www.thedeepview.co/p/nvidia-to-produce-500-billion-worth-of-supercomputers-in-the-u-s-for-the-first-time
• Apple’s US push: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/02/apple-will-spend-more-than-500-billion-usd-in-the-us-over-the-next-four-years/

Outline:
0:00 – Intro
4:09 – The vulnerability of the AI supply chain
19:13 – Is it realistic to bring production back to the US?
27:31 – Innovation could plateau
34:04 – The challenge of navigating uncertainty, even if the tariffs come off

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Artificial intelligence is a complicated topic, bound by a number of complex threads — technical science, ethics, safety, regulation, neuroscience, psychology, philosophy, investment and — above all — humanity. On The Deep View: Conversations, Ian Krietzberg, host and Editor-in-Chief at The Deep View, breaks it all down, cutting through the hype to make clear what's important and why you should care.