A Conversation with P. Read Montague.

Abstract

Dr. Montague: My research lives at the interface of what would now be called artificial intelligence (AI) and neurobiology, right where life happens at the interface. It focuses on something that you might call “reward learning”: How do we learn to value the world, revalue the world, and use those valuations to choose actions? My particular take on the problem has been a computational one. My job has been to ferry theories from artificial intelligence about how any adaptive system should behave and do divination over the neurobiology, interpreting various biological implementations with artificial intelligence–like quantities computing in the brain.