The Trouble with AI: It’s Not What You Think! | Prof. James Madden
The Thomistic Institute
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The Social Leap
In Von Hippel's book, the social leap, he accounts what I'm told is a fairly common experiment that has been done in behavioral psychology. If you take a human child and then a chimpanzee that are about in the same cognitive level, and we all had like our chimp stage, right? Okay. Now make the box transparent so it's obvious where the lock is. Do the same thing now. Go through the sequence several times. You can open the box and get the treat. All right. Chimp will. Boom. Go to lock. It's a lock. The kid does the sequence.Okay. Bon Hippel thinks this makes a lot of sense, right
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