Generally Intelligent

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

Nov 22, 2022

01:52:35

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Celeste Kidd

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The Role of Feedback in Predicting Certainty

02:02

The Preference Paradigm: Investigating Learning of Babys with a Simple Method

01:58

Probabilistic Modeling of Expectations in a Children's Game

02:06

The Effect of Bright Colors on Attention

01:55

Introduction

3min

Why I'm Not Yelling at You

2min

Is There a Future in Artificial Intelligence?

2min

Preferential Looking Paradigms in Developmental Science

6min

Is There a Difference in the Degree of Specialization in Machine Learning?

5min

The Goldilots Effect in Machine Learning

2min

Is There a Sweet Spot of Learning in Machine Learning?

4min

Are There Cultures Where Random Is Not a Concept?

2min

Is There a Proximal Learning Zone?

2min

10.

The Stanford Marshmallow Task Experiment

4min

11.

Can You Manipulate Kids Expectations?

5min

12.

Early Experiences Set Expectations

2min

13.

How Does Human Certitude Guide Our Attention?

2min

14.

Is This Daxie Yes or No?

3min

15.

Do You Have a Sense of Humility in Graduate Science Training?

3min

16.

Can You Give the Learnings of Super Forecasters to Adults?

2min

17.

How Do You Predict Numeric Things?

2min

18.

What Causes People to Acquire Certainties in Their Head?

3min

19.

Is There Any Uncertainty?

2min

20.

Do Animals Get Real Certain Real Fasting?

6min

21.

Are You Having Misinformed Beliefs?

2min

22.

How Do You Know if You Believe Something Is More Predominant Than Not?

5min

23.

The Ashken Formany Experiments

5min

24.

Is Sesame Street Really Educational?

2min

25.

What's a Myth?

2min

26.

Is There a Difference Between Engaged and Stimulated Learning?

3min

27.

What Work Is Most Overlooked?

2min

28.

Is Your Tongue Hanging Out in Your Mouth?

3min

29.

Language Acquisition

5min

30.

What's Your Perception of a Statement?

2min

31.

Do You Have an Unusual or Controversial Research Opinion?

4min

32.

Is There a Curious Mind in Adults?

2min

33.

Are There Any Mechanisms That Can Suppress Human Certitude?

2min

34.

Is There a Predictor of What Are You Most Probably to Click?

3min

35.

Is There a Transparency in AI?

3min

36.

Are You a Scientist?

2min

37.

The Typical Mind Fallacy

2min

38.

Joe Biden Clusters - A New Component for in-NeurIPS

2min

Celeste Kidd is a professor of psychology at UC Berkeley. Her lab studies the processes involved in knowledge acquisition; essentially, how we form our beliefs over time and what allows us to select a subset of all the information we encounter in the world to form those beliefs. In this episode, we chat about attention and curiosity, beliefs and expectations, where certainty comes from, and much more.

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