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3 statements across 3 episodes · 2 bullish · 0 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Dec 30, 2019 by Frank Chen · across every show →

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Dec 30, 2019 positive
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Chen: Effective AI coaches require three core infant cognitive traits
“The ability to form what psychologists call a theory of mind. In other words, a prediction that of other people's desires and goals and emotions. The ability to break a task down into sub tasks without seeing thousands of similar examples. And third, and maybe…”
Frank Chen Dec 30, 2019 ▶ 30:11 Imagining Our Future Through Tech
Sep 25, 2023 positive
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Theory of mind in AI is an emergent property of scale
“Yeah, just make the thing smarter. It's gonna have a better theory of mind, and I think that's definitely something massively, massively important. It seems like one of these emergent properties that just Is gonna, going to come with scale.”
Noam Shazeer Sep 25, 2023 ▶ 13:03 Universally Accessible Intelligence with Character.ai's Noam Shazeer
Nov 17, 2025
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Shear: Human Goal Inference Succeeds Due to Built-In Theory of Mind
“The reason humans are so good at this is we have a really excellent theory of mind. I already know what you're likely to ask me to do. I already have a good model of what your goals probably are. So if you ask me to do it, I have an easy inference problem.”
Emmett Shear Nov 17, 2025 ▶ 19:18 Emmett Shear on Building AI That Actually Cares: Beyond Control and Steering
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