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Gerd Gigerenzer on How to Stay Smart in a Smart World

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Is the Brain a Computer?

There is a presumption that when a computer learns to recognize he school boss, it's mimicking the brain. But there may be some things that we call artificial intelligence that are brain like and others that are not. And what are your thoughts on the limits of that process? There's a lot of nirvana, utopian thinking about what computers will be capable of in coming years. Are you sceptical of thosepros? Lots of marketing hype out there.

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