I speak with Tom Griffiths about his “resource-rational framework”, inspired by Herb Simon's bounded rationality and Stuart Russel’s bounded optimality concepts. The resource-rational framework illuminates how the constraints of optimizing our available cognition can help us understand what algorithms our brains use to get things done, and can serve as a bridge between Marr’s computational, algorithmic, and implementation levels of understanding. We also talk cognitive prostheses, artificial general intelligence, consciousness, and more.
Part 3 in our 100th episode celebration. Previous guests answered the question: Given the continual surprising progress in AI powered by scaling up parameters...
photo courtesy of adam fields Show notes: Nathaniel will deliver a keynote address at the upcoming CCN conference.Check out his lab website.Follow him on...
Mentioned in the show: Mark’s lab The excellent blog he writes on Medium The paper we discuss: An ensemble code in medial prefrontal cortex...