Numenta On Intelligence - Episode 7: Conversation with Numenta CEO Donna Dubinsky

Episode 7: Conversation with Numenta CEO Donna Dubinsky

12/31/18 • 21 min

After a couple episodes of deep neuroscience, co-host Christy Maver takes us back to the business side of things in an interview with Numenta CEO Donna Dubinsky. They discuss the challenge of navigating a dual mission, why she believes it’s important even for non-neuroscientists to understand how the brain works, and where she believes the company is going.

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Numenta On Intelligence - Episode 7: Conversation with Numenta CEO Donna Dubinsky

Transcript

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You are listening to Numenta On Intelligence, a monthly podcast about how intelligence works in the brain and how to implement it in nonbiological systems. I'm Christy Maver. For the past couple episodes, my co-host Matt Taylor has continued his Interview with a Neuroscientist series and gone pretty deep into various neuroscience topics. For our final episode of 2018, we're taking it back to the business side. I interviewed our CEO Donna Dubinsky a