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Dax Shepard

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Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
David Sussillo (on foster care and neuroscience)

There are reasons it's hard, but first let me meet you on the conceptually, no, it's not like doing brain-machine interfaces where you have no idea what's going on.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
David Sussillo (on foster care and neuroscience)

Right, because it's very like end of river.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
David Sussillo (on foster care and neuroscience)

Exactly right.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
David Sussillo (on foster care and neuroscience)

It is true that your motor cortex projects to your spine, the spine projects to your wrist.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
David Sussillo (on foster care and neuroscience)

The muscle is driven by electricity when you move, and that's an aggregate signal of neurons.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
David Sussillo (on foster care and neuroscience)

Those are the cells in your brain that fire electrically and cause you to be you.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
David Sussillo (on foster care and neuroscience)

But to meet your point, what's coming down the line here is not

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
David Sussillo (on foster care and neuroscience)

your pancakes that you had for breakfast.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
David Sussillo (on foster care and neuroscience)

It's the stuff that you do to move your hand.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
David Sussillo (on foster care and neuroscience)

And so in that sense, it's an applied problem.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
David Sussillo (on foster care and neuroscience)

The body has simplified it quite a bit by the time we get to the wrist.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
David Sussillo (on foster care and neuroscience)

That's right.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
David Sussillo (on foster care and neuroscience)

The challenges of it are, how do you get something to work on every single person when they put it on the first time?

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
David Sussillo (on foster care and neuroscience)

That's a really hard application problem.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
David Sussillo (on foster care and neuroscience)

Because it has been determined that people won't have the tolerance to let it learn from it for some period.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
David Sussillo (on foster care and neuroscience)

The consumer doesn't want a learning phase.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
David Sussillo (on foster care and neuroscience)

Yeah, we call that personalization.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
David Sussillo (on foster care and neuroscience)

So we, so far, have not gone down that road.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
David Sussillo (on foster care and neuroscience)

We just have a general model.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
David Sussillo (on foster care and neuroscience)

You put it on and it works.