Kahneman: Human intelligence requires causal world representations to make predictions
Daniel Kahneman · Daniel Kahneman and Yann LeCun: How To Get AI To Think Like Humans (Full Episode) · Dec 10, 2021 · at 7:06
Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman explains cognitive architecture to Alex Kantrowitz and Yann LeCun during a discussion on building human-like AI.
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“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 How the system works. It includes the causal relations. This is what enables you to predict.”
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