Is Your Artistic Brain Making the AI Systems?

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When you're not just free associating that way, how does it manifest in those situations? Well, the first thing I did was to go to every feed yard in Arizona and work cattle in all these different facilities. And I started to see kind of certain rules of how to lay these things out. "This is one that seems to be producing a new space in that old AI world"

Temple Grandin was born in 1947 at a time when words like neurodivergent and neurotypical had yet to enter the lexicon, at a time when autism was not well understood, and since she didn’t develop speech until much later than most children she might have led a much different life if it hadn’t been for people around her who worked very hard to open up a space for her to thrive and explore her talents and abilities. In this episode we discuss all that as well as her latest book, Visual Thinking, all about three distinct ways that human brains create human minds to make sense of the world outside of their skulls.