human brain

7 statements across 7 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 6 people on the record · first statement Dec 10, 2021 by Yann LeCun · across every show →

Everything said about human brain, oldest first

Dec 10, 2021 neutral
Assertion Partly supported
LeCun: Conscious perception is a 100-millisecond forward prediction
“In fact, your perception of the world is not the world as it is. It's the world as it's going to be, because there is, you know, about a hundred millisecond delay between what you see and how your brain interprets what it is. So so in fact your brain predicts …”
Yann LeCun Dec 10, 2021 ▶ 41:49 Daniel Kahneman and Yann LeCun: How To Get AI To Think Like Humans (Full Episode)
Sep 13, 2022
Insight
Marcus: Evolution primes humans to mistake conversational machines for people
“There's no machinery in our brains innately to tell us the difference between a person and machine. And what happens is that in evolutionary perspective, anything that could talk was probably a person, right?”
Gary Marcus Sep 13, 2022 ▶ 21:06 Is AI Dangerously Overhyped? — With Gary Marcus
May 15, 2024 positive
Insight
AI models are fundamentally much more interpretable than the human brain
“Fundamentally, it's a bunch of parameters, right? So it's much more interpretable than a human brain or something.”
Dwarkesh Patel May 15, 2024 ▶ 53:55 AI Scaling, Alignment, and the Path to Superintelligence — With Dwarkesh Patel
Jan 23, 2025 neutral
Opinion
Demis Hassabis believes the human brain is a Turing machine
“The human brain is probably some sort of Turing machine. At least that's what I believe.”
Demis Hassabis Jan 23, 2025 ▶ 24:20 Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis: The Path To AGI, Deceptive AIs, Building a Virtual Cell
Apr 23, 2025 neutral
Opinion
Patel: Language is a representation for reasoning, not human thought itself
“Language is not actually how our brain thinks. It's just a representation for which it to, you know, reason over.”
Dylan Patel Apr 23, 2025 ▶ 4:58 Generative AI 101: Tokens, Pre-training, Fine-tuning, Reasoning — With SemiAnalysis CEO Dylan Patel
May 21, 2025
Insight
Hassabis: True AGI Must Match the Entire Capability Range of Human Brain Architecture
“What I would call AGI, is really a more theoretical construct, which is what is the human brain as an architecture able to do, right? And that's, the human brain's an important reference point because it's the only evidence we have maybe in the universe that g…”
Demis Hassabis May 21, 2025 ▶ 9:32 DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis + Google Co-Founder Sergey Brin: AGI by 2030?
Jun 4, 2026 negative
Insight
Hinton: Digital AI's weight-sharing makes it a superior form of intelligence
“Whereas these things are exchanging information at like a trillion bits. So they're kind of billions of times better than us at sharing information. Now that's scary. It means you could have a whole swarm of these things with identical weights running on diffe…”
Geoffrey Hinton Jun 4, 2026 ▶ 17:43 AI Pioneer Geoffrey Hinton: AI Is Conscious, Superintelligence is Coming, And We Should Be Worried
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