This book by Chris Eliasmith came up once on Lex Fridman in the episodes we index. That mention was a genuine on-air recommendation, not just a passing reference. The people who brought it up: Nate Derbinsky. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
Every time it came up
MIT AGI: Cognitive Architecture (Nate Derbinsky)
“he's got a really cool book called how to build a brain and if you google and you can google spun you can find a toolkit”— Nate Derbinsky
The guest here is Nate Derbinsky: Professor at Northeastern University working on computational agents with human-level intelligence; longtime developer of the Soar cognitive architecture and student of John Laird's lab at the University of Michigan. Nate Derbinsky explains cognitive architecture as a path to AGI, focusing on the Soar system and the surprising value of forgetting.
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