Human Cognition
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Gandhi: Media Does Not Just Influence Decisions; It Is Human Cognition
“So so media is not something that influences our decisions. Media is us and hence extremely crucial that we look at it with the same level of integrity and Seriousness that we look at our brains with.”
Ranjan: AI hallucinations and human assumptions exhibit the same underlying behavior
“I actually do agree that the terms might be different, but the exhibited behavior is the same.”
Yao: Human cognition should serve as an AI reference point, not a blueprint
“I don't think we should copy exactly what's going on with human all the way, but I think it's good to have a reference point because this is a working example of how intelligence works.”
Voss: People are 31% smarter in a positive frame of mind
“You're 31% smarter in a positive frame of mind.”
Kahneman: Human minds make sense of events retrospectively, not by constant prediction
“It's not so much that we have specific expectations about what's going to happen next. What is happening most of the time is that things happen and then we make sense of them. That is, we actually go back and fit them into what happened before.”
Human reaction speed tops out at 650 milliseconds for expert chess players
“For an amateur chess player it's about 900 milliseconds for the brain to register whether or not the king is in danger. For an expert chess player, it does increase. It does, you know, get faster, but it tops out at 650 milliseconds.65 of a second.”