Hopefully you have been along for the ride and have listened to all six episodes. It’s been a lot to digest, a lot to think about. While the field of neuroscience has made great strides, when it comes to the subject of human intelligence there’s still so much to learn. Which is why I’ve appreciated […]
In this final episode of the Complexity podcast, Melanie Mitchell provides us with a bit of her backstory — how she became interested in the topic of AI — and the path she’s been on in the 35 years since she got her PhD, years. She shares the little-known fact that AI wasn’t always the […]
I don’t know about you, but my brain is starting to hurt, but in a good way. What seems clear to me was summed up when Abha Eli Phoboo informed us that, “we don’t fully understand human intelligence or animal intelligence” in this episode. And there’s much discussion regarding how we’re trying to evaluate machines […]
So let’s recap where we’re at with regards to the Complexity podcast from the Santa Fe Institute. This season covers the Nature of Intelligence, going beyond what it means for humans to be intelligent and taking a look at the state of AI (artificial intelligence) from that same perspective. So far we’ve addressed: Episode 1 […]
In the previous two articles we looked at the question of What is Intelligence? and examined The relationship between language and thought. As part of the Santa Fe Institute’s Complexity podcast series, I feel these topics are important, since AI is increasingly infiltrating our life. How will our personal stories change as artificial intelligence becomes […]