298 | Jeff Lichtman on the Wiring Diagram of the Brain
The number of neurons in the human brain is comparable to the number of stars in the Milky Way galaxy. […]
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Thinking
285 | Nate Silver on Prediction, Risk, and Rationality
Being rational necessarily involves engagement with probability. Given two possible courses of action, it can be rational to prefer the
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284 | Doris Tsao on How the Brain Turns Vision Into the World
The human brain does a pretty amazing job of taking in a huge amount of data from multiple sensory modalities
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280 | François Chollet on Deep Learning and the Meaning of Intelligence
Which is more intelligent, ChatGPT or a 3-year old? Of course this depends on what we mean by “intelligence.” A
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260 | Ricard Sole on the Space of Cognitions
Octopuses, artificial intelligence, and advanced alien civilizations: for many reasons, it’s interesting to contemplate ways of thinking other than whatever
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258 | Solo: AI Thinks Different
The Artificial Intelligence landscape is changing with remarkable speed these days, and the capability of Large Language Models in particular
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249 | Peter Godfrey-Smith on Sentience and Octopus Minds
The study of cognition and sentience would be greatly abetted by the discovery of intelligent alien beings, who presumably developed
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248 | Yejin Choi on AI and Common Sense
Over the last year, AI large-language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT have demonstrated a remarkable ability to carry on human-like conversations
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235 | Andy Clark on the Extended and Predictive Mind
What is the mind, and what does it try to do? An overly simplified materialist view might be that the
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233 | Hugo Mercier on Reasoning and Skepticism
Here at the Mindscape Podcast, we are firmly pro-reason. But what does that mean, fundamentally and in practice? How did
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