The media have covered many of the recent achievements of artificial intelligence: there are chess-computers that can beat humans, there is Sofia the robot who has been granted actual citizenship and with the help of deep fakes, fake videos are easily created. It is often assumed that artificial intelligence has achieved this success by virtue of its brain-like computation and, therefore, its ability to imitate human cognition. In this episode, we examine what it means for a machine to think like a person, and whether that is ultimately possible. We do this with our two guests: Nynke Boiten and David Knigge. Nynke is currently doing the master Brain and Cognitive Science at the University of Amsterdam, where she focuses on computer models of the brain. David Knigge is studying Artificial Intelligence, also in Amsterdam. He is writing his thesis, in which he tries to build an artificial intelligence system that can recognize pictures.

Tracklist:
What is the Human Machine - Helium
Mindwalk - Robert Schroeder
Robot Motion - Frank Fischer-Goeppingen
ICE - Lorn
The Man Maschine - Kraftwerk
Crawl Up - Satoshi & Makoto
Voices of the Mind - Herbert Bodzin
Cyborg - Egyptian Lover