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Episode 23: Celeste Kidd, UC Berkeley, on attention and curiosity, how we form beliefs, and where certainty comes from

Generally Intelligent

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Is There Any Uncertainty?

As uncertainty, we have a whole other line of research led by Carolyn Bear. We know that babies use their own uncertainty in order to guide their attention and to guide their learning. You could have uncertainty about somebody else's uncertainty. It gets very complicated very quickly. All of those are mathematically distinct things in our models but we don't have good ways talking about them.

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