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

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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[@johnodee100]

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

[@worldofdaas]

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

[@speaker_2234]

Awesome interview 🙏

[@Cool_Aqua]

This needs more views. Steven is a legend.

[@worldofdaas]

Please like comment and share 🙌 and thanks for watching!

[@ChuckSilva]

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

[@KAWASAKIWRON]

Steven Pinker made me an optimist using math!

[@worldofdaas]

He's brilliant!

[@jmarty1000]

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]

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[@MrSidney9]

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

[@vayuagni]

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

[@billburros5343]

Interrupting?

[@readynowforever3676]

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?”

[@Question-Research-wj5wr]

Great man Mr.Steven.....❤

[@alexkreyn315]

Amazing, as always

[@worldofdaas]

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

[@tatotato85]

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

[@tatotato85]

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

[@worldofdaas]

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

[@erumkhan6296]

Fantastic presentation.

[@worldofdaas]

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

[@matthewleitch1]

'Trust your gut' - good choice.

[@jensklausen2449]

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

[@jmarty1000]

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

[@jensklausen2449]

@@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]

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

[@imaginationworker9144]

Too much speaking and interrupting by the interviewer 😞

[@maxdetrickster6524]

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]

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...🤪🤪🤔🤔🤣🤣😎

[@shirtstealer86]

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]

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

[@yasirsultani]

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]

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.