BI 056 Tom Griffiths: The Limits of Cognition

December 22, 2019 01:27:37
BI 056 Tom Griffiths: The Limits of Cognition
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BI 056 Tom Griffiths: The Limits of Cognition

Dec 22 2019 | 01:27:37

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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.

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