Human Mind
topic on 6 shows · 7 statements across 7 episodes
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Perez: AI merely reorganizes past information, limiting its capacity for genuine innovation
“I think a lot of AI, it's just re-scrambling what's happened in the past, so it's hard to get innovation from that, whereas that's the beauty of the human mind.”
Chollet: Human generalization stems from symbolic, causal program synthesis
“I do believe the human mind does at the highest level something that looks a lot like programs in this, like we're currently building Causal models of our surroundings. Like we are describing our surroundings in our mind as, you know, a set of objects and agen…”
AxiomProver could eventually solve the majority of human mathematical conjectures
“Everything that human mind Can conjecture, find interesting, find tasteful, could be solved by, hopefully, majority of them by accent prover.”
Santos: Human Minds Evolved for Survival and Reproduction, Not Happiness
“We are products of natural selection, which is a blind process that, you know, if you kind of intentionalize it, it's kind of going for anything that will get you to survive and reproduce into the next generation. So natural selection is like double down on al…”
LeCun: Discrete conceptual entities in biological minds are completely learned
“And I certainly do not believe that those, the meaning of those discrete entities are predetermined in the human mind, certainly, and the animal mind either. Those are completely learned.”
Milkman: Human laziness is an efficient cognitive design feature
“Laziness, which I actually would argue is a good design feature for the human mind, that we prefer the path of least resistance. We generally look for the easy way out. It makes a lot of sense. It's very efficient, and yet it creates challenges when we want to…”