Rewiring AI: What Happens When You Start with the Brain, Not the Data | EP.42

In this episode of Hidden Layers, Ron Green sits down with Dr. Karl Friston—world-renowned neuroscientist and originator of the Free Energy Principle—and Dan Mapes, founder of Verses AI and the Spatial Web Foundation. Together, they explore how neuroscience is beginning to reshape artificial intelligence.

They break down complex but powerful ideas like active inference, biologically plausible AI, and collective intelligence. You'll hear how concepts from brain science are influencing next-gen AI architectures and what the future might hold beyond large language models.

From the limitations of backpropagation to the promise of decentralized, embodied, and domain-specific models, this is a deep dive into the future of intelligent systems—and the science behind them.