AI-powered
podcast player
Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features
4min chapter
184 | Gary Marcus on Artificial Intelligence and Common Sense
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
The Symbolic Approach to Computer Programming
In some ways, the 'symbolic approach' to artificial intelligence is kind of dumb. It's about having functions where you have variables that you bind to particular instances and calculate the values out. And so it's really a different, almost thesis about what cognition should be. But i think the right thesis is actually, our brains, anyway, can do both. We can do the logical, abstract stuff even at seven months old. So there's this ability for us to do abstraction, which allows us to be computer programmers or to do logic. And there's also this like, heavy statistical analysis that we humans do - but we're not quite as good as the machines at it.
00:00
Transcript
Episode notes
Get the Snipd
podcast app
Unlock the knowledge in podcasts with the podcast player of the future.
AI-powered
Discover
highlights
Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode
Save any
moment
Hear something you like? Tap your headphones to save it with AI-generated key takeaways
Share
& Export
Send highlights to Twitter, WhatsApp or export them to Notion, Readwise & more
AI-powered
podcast player
Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features
Discover
highlights
Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode