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How studying human cognition can help us make better AI systems, with Tom Griffiths, PhD

Speaking of Psychology

CHAPTER

The Importance of Thinking Like a Computer

As you get more data, you have the opportunity to then explore more complex theories. That's a natural consequence of just having more data. The other good bit of news is that your human intuitions are actually pretty good for solving these problems anyway. By looking at those kinds of sensible things that humans do, we can actually work out better algorithms for making computers solve these kinds of problems.

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