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Is There a Difference Between Being Smart and Being Intelligent?
A lot of work we do in our lab is basic science on using brain imaging technologies to try and understand how metacognition works after relatively core scale. We use non-invasive imaging like functional MRI to look at different regions of the brain and the patterns of activations there when people are engaged in these kind of self assessments. And it's complicated. It's not straightforward to understand what different parts of that network are doing. But I think what is increasingly becoming clear is that facility faculties like metacognitions, just the capacity to have conscious experience and to communicate that experience to others,. This is not the same thing as being smart and being intelligent. The big frontier in AI