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#222 – Jay McClelland: Neural Networks and the Emergence of Cognition

Lex Fridman Podcast

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How to Scale the Mechanisms of Human Intelligence

I think of mathematics as a set of tools for exploring idealized worlds that often turn out to be extremely relevant to the real world, but need not. And I think this is actually already true when we think about just, you know, the natural numbers. We humans are beating the AIs, but they're catching up pretty quickly. It's incredible leverage that they didn't have without these concepts.

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