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Daniel Kahneman

Professor of Psychology Emeritus, Princeton University · 1 appearance on the record.

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Along with long-time collaborator Amos Tversky, Kahneman revolutionized cognitive psychology and behavioral economics by developing prospect theory and identifying pervasive cognitive biases, winning the 2002 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. He synthesized his lifetime of research in the bestselling book Thinking, Fast and Slow and later co-authored Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment.

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Everything Daniel Kahneman said on Big Technology that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

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Kahneman: Human intelligence requires causal world representations to make predictions
“When we describe human intelligence, we describe, we speak of a representation of the world. And it's the representation that leads to prediction. That is, there is no shortcut to the prediction from the data. You go through a representation, which includes Ho…”
Daniel Kahneman Dec 10, 2021 ▶ 7:06 Daniel Kahneman and Yann LeCun: How To Get AI To Think Like Humans (Full Episode)
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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.”
Daniel Kahneman Dec 10, 2021 ▶ 7:38 Daniel Kahneman and Yann LeCun: How To Get AI To Think Like Humans (Full Episode)
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Kahneman: Internal world models and feeling unsurprised are System 1 functions
“The representation of the world That we have in our ability to anticipate or to feel unsurprised by what happens, which is I think more than anticipating, ah, that is all system one. That's all, you know, that's all automatic. It's effortless and it's very qui…”
Daniel Kahneman Dec 10, 2021 ▶ 10:31 Daniel Kahneman and Yann LeCun: How To Get AI To Think Like Humans (Full Episode)

The other half of the tape: Daniel Kahneman's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 7 times in 4 episodes on Big Technology. 1 statement on the record names them. every mention, with the transcript →

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LeCun: Self-Supervised Learning Forms the Bulk of Natural and Machine Intelligence
“Most of what we learn as humans and animals and in, in the future that machine will learn is learned in this kind of self-supervised manner, basically by watching the world go by and by, you know, taking an action once in a while, but in a, you know, non-task …”
Yann LeCun Dec 10, 2021 ▶ 1:03:10 Daniel Kahneman and Yann LeCun: How To Get AI To Think Like Humans (Full Episode)

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Daniel Kahneman and Yann LeCun: How To Get AI To Think Like Humans (Full Episode) Dec 10, 2021 11m
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