The golden age of AI and neuroscience, brain computer interface (BCI), from academia to FAANG with Patrick Mineault - The Data Scientist Show #034

Patrick Mineault is a neural data scientist. He has worked at Google and Facebook after he did a postdoc at UCLA. He worked on Brain Computer Interface (BCI) at Facebook Reality Labs, building a BCI that allows you to type with your brain. He tweets about neuro-AI @patrickmineault, and writes a blog (https://xcorr.net) sharing his career journey and learnings along the way. If you like the show subscribe to the channel and give us a 5-star review. Subscribe to Daliana's newsletter on www.dalianaliu.com/ for more on data science. Daliana's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dalianaliu/ Daliana's Twitter: https://twitter.com/DalianaLiu How he got into data science (00:02:41) His work at Google on A/B testing (00:04:17) How he joined Facebook Reality Lab(00:23:53) Projects on neuro-AI and brain computer interface (BCI) (00:27:13) Skills needed for BCI research (00:34:37) How AI influence neuroscience (01:34:28) computer vision VS human vision (01:39:57) model vs data, nature vs nurture(01:45:32)