How Are Tech Companies Hiring Neuroscientists to Build AI?

On Decrypted, Sarah McBride tells Brad Stone that neuroscience is starting to shape how companies design AI, so it is a good moment to be a neuroscientist. People who had spent a career in universities were getting offers in Silicon Valley. Google, Apple, and Amazon were hiring them, including the zebra-finch researchers this episode follows. Intel will not say how many people it has in AI. McBride says it is a lot, and that many of them come from this animal-neuroscience background. The pitch she describes is machines that behave in smarter, more human ways. A self-driving car that has to decide quickly was already one of the jobs.