Describing his interdisciplinary research project intertwining computer science and biology, Ted Pavlic, an associate professor in the School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence, part of the Fulton Schools, explains how artificial intelligence, or AI, systems can suffer from “catastrophic forgetting.” In this podcast from an Australian news outlet, he describes a current drawback of AI systems that can learn to perform new tasks but then later forget how to do them when they need to focus instead on a learning a different task. In an effort overcome that drawback, Pavlic has been examining the workings of the brains of sleeping bees, which could contribute to knowledge on how to create more memory-efficient AI technology.