This book by Tom Crouch 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: Dileep George. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
Every time it came up
Dileep George: Brain-Inspired AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #115
“the third one uh i would definitely recommend reading is um uh this is not a technical book it is history it's called it's the name of the book i think is bishop's voice it's about wright brothers”— Dileep George
The guest here is Dileep George: Researcher at the intersection of neuroscience and AI, co-founder of Vicarious (with Scott Phoenix) and formerly Numenta (with Jeff Hawkins and Donna Dubinsky). Known for hierarchical temporal memory and the Recursive Cortical Network. Vicarious co-founder Dileep George argues true AI must be brain-inspired, model the world, and run simulations rather than just scale up text prediction.
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