The Science of Smarter Thinking l Steven Pinker on AI and Human Intelligence

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  • Опубліковано 19 чер 2024
  • Delve into the Mind of Genius! Join Auren Hoffman as he dives deep into the realms of AI, Cognitive Science, and Intellectual Freedom with Harvard's Prof. Steven Pinker.
    🧠🤖 Discover the Mysteries of Human Intelligence, AI Advancements, and Future Implications in this Mind-Blowing Episode! 🚀🌐 Don't Miss Out - Engage in Thought-Provoking Discourse on Disasters, Rationality, and Honesty! 🎙🔥 #artificialintelligence #ai #cognitivescience
    00:00 Steven Pinker
    00:50 Computational theory of mind
    04:39 How brain is computer
    07:40 Has AI surprised you
    10:25 AI art
    12:35 Linguistics + AI
    15:12 Why “AI safety” is misleading
    19:12 Effects of technology on cognition
    21:59 Most important datasets
    24:13 Why we love catastrophe
    29:29 Rationality and risk
    34:12 Why intellectual freedom is under threat
    42:16 Public perceptions of science
    46:09 Quebec & multilingualism
    56:37 Steven’s take for common bad advice
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 39

  • @johnodee100
    @johnodee100 10 місяців тому +11

    Professor Pinker is a lot of good things. Foremost is his ability to educate and enlighten.
    A great interview.

    • @worldofdaas
      @worldofdaas  10 місяців тому +1

      Thank you for tuning in. If you can, please share this with someone you know would enjoy Steven's interview 🕊

  • @Cool_Aqua
    @Cool_Aqua 10 місяців тому +13

    This needs more views. Steven is a legend.

    • @worldofdaas
      @worldofdaas  10 місяців тому +1

      Please like comment and share 🙌 and thanks for watching!

  • @jmarty1000
    @jmarty1000 5 місяців тому +3

    Steven Pinker is by far my favorite public intellectual because he is so persuasive and judicious in his choices for what is important. I've been a fan since "How the Mind Works" was first published. I don't agree with everything he prioritizes, or more accurately, with what he does not consider important, but I can count on him providing a persuasive argument. The only person I can think of mentioning in the same category is Bret Weinstein, as far as ability to tell a story and construct a compelling argument.

    • @worldofdaas
      @worldofdaas  5 місяців тому

      Thanks for your thoughtful comment! Please share the video with anyone who you think will enjoy it (and don't forget to subscribe to World of DaaS for more videos like this).

  • @KAWASAKIWRON
    @KAWASAKIWRON 10 місяців тому +9

    Steven Pinker made me an optimist using math!

  • @ChuckSilva
    @ChuckSilva 8 місяців тому +5

    Steve is a huge inspiration. I can’t get enough of his outstanding intellect. ❤

  • @vayuagni
    @vayuagni 7 місяців тому +5

    Auren hoffman your show is great but please refrain from interfering before the guest completes his thought.

  • @speaker_2234
    @speaker_2234 10 місяців тому +9

    Awesome interview 🙏

  • @MrSidney9
    @MrSidney9 8 місяців тому +3

    I have never listened to
    this man and not be utterly edified .

  • @Question-Research-wj5wr
    @Question-Research-wj5wr 7 місяців тому +1

    Great man Mr.Steven.....❤

  • @tatotato85
    @tatotato85 6 місяців тому +1

    I was ready to listen to this talk for 2 more hours. Good stuff

    • @worldofdaas
      @worldofdaas  6 місяців тому

      Great to hear! Please share with a friend if you think they will enjoy it too. p.s. love your user name :)

  • @alexkreyn315
    @alexkreyn315 10 місяців тому +3

    Amazing, as always

    • @worldofdaas
      @worldofdaas  10 місяців тому +1

      Steven is brilliant! If you enjoyed this episode please like and share 🙌

  • @erumkhan6296
    @erumkhan6296 8 місяців тому +1

    Fantastic presentation.

    • @worldofdaas
      @worldofdaas  8 місяців тому

      Thanks for watching! Subscribe for the best in tech and innovation every Tuesday :)

  • @tatotato85
    @tatotato85 6 місяців тому

    I wonder what economists have to add the talk at 27:00

  • @readynowforever3676
    @readynowforever3676 9 місяців тому +2

    The three year old child wasn’t asking:
    “Why are you so fat?”…
    …in a derogatory or pejorative context; but rather in an innocent interest or inquisitiveness.
    Like a child asking:
    “Why are you so tall?”

  • @matthewleitch1
    @matthewleitch1 7 місяців тому

    'Trust your gut' - good choice.

  • @tonyhill2318
    @tonyhill2318 17 днів тому

    Id rarely say this of Pinker, but i don't think he's thought long enough about how AI could do serious damage once its more powerful and widely accessible to malicious actors.

  • @josephmore6361
    @josephmore6361 15 днів тому

    Actually I think that the silly output generated by AI makes it all the more human like

  • @jensklausen2449
    @jensklausen2449 8 місяців тому

    Why do Tesla then not use a feed back method when a Tesla vehicle gets stuck trying to drive from A to B?

    • @jmarty1000
      @jmarty1000 5 місяців тому

      Why do you assume they do not? In fact, they do. A lot.

    • @jensklausen2449
      @jensklausen2449 5 місяців тому

      @@jmarty1000 Ok maybe they do but apparently not in a way that can make current AI drive a car from a to be in the general case like humans can. Also what feed back is there when an AI is completely stuck in a task?

  • @billburros5343
    @billburros5343 4 місяці тому

    I KNOW you didn't just compare Stockfish to a thermostat. lol

  • @maxdetrickster6524
    @maxdetrickster6524 6 місяців тому +1

    It's painfully obvious that Hoffman is way out of his depth here and asks questions a person with MSc degree in Cognitive Science could answer with ease. Also, one can easily see Pinker realises a couple minutes into the interview it was a mistake to accept an invitation from a guy who has no knowledge of the domain in question but thinks he does. I advise next time to do background reading and read all the books written by the interviewees to get a decent grasp of the domain. Furthermore, the continuous interruptions, what's the point of that? Turned off half way through, as couldn't stomach these interruptions anymore.

    • @gerhardvanderpoll7378
      @gerhardvanderpoll7378 5 місяців тому

      It is painfully obvious that you are a pain in the butt,and that your comments are based on snobbishness and ladee-da..de deede dum....If you are so perfect why don't you do a podcast and do better,mr Perfection Trickster.....anyway you are entitled to your opinion and so am I...but I always keep it in mind that both your opinion,as well as mine,is just like an ass hole,in the sense that both you and I have one...🤪🤪🤔🤔🤣🤣😎

  • @imaginationworker9144
    @imaginationworker9144 2 місяці тому

    Too much speaking and interrupting by the interviewer 😞

  • @shirtstealer86
    @shirtstealer86 5 місяців тому +2

    Dear lord.. first he says he was surprised by the capabilities of GPT4 then he says humans are not very good at assessing risk, then he says AI being an existential threat is nonsense. Embarrassing. It is people like him that will have the blood of humanity on their hands. Shame.

    • @shirtstealer86
      @shirtstealer86 5 місяців тому +1

      And don’t get me started on the “just don’t build it”.

    • @stevenyafet
      @stevenyafet 17 днів тому

      Well said! Even if Steven Pinker has written useful books and spoken well elsewhere, this is a mess and he tramples his host's better understanding of AI.
      It seems neuroscience is popping now, independent of ML. Look up Alipasha Vaziri work with Light Bead Microscopy. No guarantees but if Yoshua Bengio Attractors / dynamical systems models come together with that somehow, what a singularity.
      And hallucinations do not show that AI is stupid. Rather the opposite, as explained by Geoff Hinton and many others
      Please get Yoshua Bengio or comparable on with Steven Pinker next time!

  • @yasirsultani
    @yasirsultani 6 місяців тому

    Pinker is trying hard to look like Einstein, unfortunatly he has no original work and the work he is best known of (his popular books) are all derivative.

    • @jmarty1000
      @jmarty1000 5 місяців тому +1

      Such a silly statement and sentiment. Pinker has done amazing original work in language learning and in 3-D Vision. But, yes, his biggest talent is explaining such complex and amazing phenomena as intelligence and consciousness, and in this he succeeds. And we're the beneficiaries of this.