Why AI doesn't yet create new knowledge

Nick Chater is Professor of Behavioural Science at Warwick Business School, who works on rationality and language using a range of theoretical and experimental approaches. We discuss his books The Mind is Flat, and the Language Game.

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TOC:
00:00:00 The mind of Anna Karenina
00:05:38 Our brain is like the Shoggoth
00:09:26 Brain simulations are incoherent
00:12:32 The world is gnarly
00:19:56 Human moral status
00:23:28 Living a hallucination
00:25:37 Colour perception
00:28:12 Universal knowledge? / rationalism
00:31:33 Math realism
00:35:13 Bayesian brain?
00:39:53 Language game Kick off - Charades
00:49:13 Evolution of language
00:53:54 Intelligence in the memesphere
00:58:21 Creativity
01:04:41 Language encoding and overloading
01:09:54 Analogical reasoning
01:13:25 Language is complex
01:14:19 Language evolution/decline
01:17:23 Is language knowledge?
01:19:53 Chomsky
01:23:36 Theories of everything
01:26:29 Prof Bishops comments on book
01:31:09 Singularity

Interviewer: Dr. Tim Scarfe
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ecsquizor/

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