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Lee Cronin

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1635 total appearances

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#404 โ€“ Lee Cronin: Controversial Nature Paper on Evolution of Life and Universe

Because when I asked chat GPT, it made me feel really happy. I got a hit from it. But actually, it just exposed how little intelligence I use in every moment. Yeah. Because I'm easily fooled. So what I would like to do is to say, well, hey, hang on. What is it about the brain?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#404 โ€“ Lee Cronin: Controversial Nature Paper on Evolution of Life and Universe

Because when I asked chat GPT, it made me feel really happy. I got a hit from it. But actually, it just exposed how little intelligence I use in every moment. Yeah. Because I'm easily fooled. So what I would like to do is to say, well, hey, hang on. What is it about the brain?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#404 โ€“ Lee Cronin: Controversial Nature Paper on Evolution of Life and Universe

Because when I asked chat GPT, it made me feel really happy. I got a hit from it. But actually, it just exposed how little intelligence I use in every moment. Yeah. Because I'm easily fooled. So what I would like to do is to say, well, hey, hang on. What is it about the brain?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#404 โ€“ Lee Cronin: Controversial Nature Paper on Evolution of Life and Universe

So the brain has this incredible connectivity and it has the ability to, you know, as I said earlier about my nephew, you know, I just I went from Bill to Billy and he went, all right, Leroy. Like, how did he make that leap? That he was able to basically, without any training, I extended his name. He went gay and he doesn't like, he wants to be called Bill.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#404 โ€“ Lee Cronin: Controversial Nature Paper on Evolution of Life and Universe

So the brain has this incredible connectivity and it has the ability to, you know, as I said earlier about my nephew, you know, I just I went from Bill to Billy and he went, all right, Leroy. Like, how did he make that leap? That he was able to basically, without any training, I extended his name. He went gay and he doesn't like, he wants to be called Bill.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#404 โ€“ Lee Cronin: Controversial Nature Paper on Evolution of Life and Universe

So the brain has this incredible connectivity and it has the ability to, you know, as I said earlier about my nephew, you know, I just I went from Bill to Billy and he went, all right, Leroy. Like, how did he make that leap? That he was able to basically, without any training, I extended his name. He went gay and he doesn't like, he wants to be called Bill.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#404 โ€“ Lee Cronin: Controversial Nature Paper on Evolution of Life and Universe

He went back and said, you like to be called Lee? I'm going to call you Leroy. So human beings have a brilliant ability or intelligent beings appear to have a brilliant ability to integrate across all domains all at once and to synthesize something which allows us to generate knowledge and becoming true and complete is

Lex Fridman Podcast
#404 โ€“ Lee Cronin: Controversial Nature Paper on Evolution of Life and Universe

He went back and said, you like to be called Lee? I'm going to call you Leroy. So human beings have a brilliant ability or intelligent beings appear to have a brilliant ability to integrate across all domains all at once and to synthesize something which allows us to generate knowledge and becoming true and complete is

Lex Fridman Podcast
#404 โ€“ Lee Cronin: Controversial Nature Paper on Evolution of Life and Universe

He went back and said, you like to be called Lee? I'm going to call you Leroy. So human beings have a brilliant ability or intelligent beings appear to have a brilliant ability to integrate across all domains all at once and to synthesize something which allows us to generate knowledge and becoming true and complete is

Lex Fridman Podcast
#404 โ€“ Lee Cronin: Controversial Nature Paper on Evolution of Life and Universe

on our own, although AIs are built in true and complete things, their thinking is not true and complete in that they are not able to build universal explanations. And that lack of universal explanation means that they're just inductivists. Inductivism doesn't get you anywhere. It's just basically a party trick.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#404 โ€“ Lee Cronin: Controversial Nature Paper on Evolution of Life and Universe

on our own, although AIs are built in true and complete things, their thinking is not true and complete in that they are not able to build universal explanations. And that lack of universal explanation means that they're just inductivists. Inductivism doesn't get you anywhere. It's just basically a party trick.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#404 โ€“ Lee Cronin: Controversial Nature Paper on Evolution of Life and Universe

on our own, although AIs are built in true and complete things, their thinking is not true and complete in that they are not able to build universal explanations. And that lack of universal explanation means that they're just inductivists. Inductivism doesn't get you anywhere. It's just basically a party trick.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#404 โ€“ Lee Cronin: Controversial Nature Paper on Evolution of Life and Universe

I think it's in The Fabric of Reality from David Deutsch, where basically the farmer is feeding the chicken every day, and the chicken's getting fat and happy, and the chicken's like, I'm really happy. Every time the farmer comes in and feeds me, and then one day the farmer comes in and instead of feeding the chicken, just wrings its neck.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#404 โ€“ Lee Cronin: Controversial Nature Paper on Evolution of Life and Universe

I think it's in The Fabric of Reality from David Deutsch, where basically the farmer is feeding the chicken every day, and the chicken's getting fat and happy, and the chicken's like, I'm really happy. Every time the farmer comes in and feeds me, and then one day the farmer comes in and instead of feeding the chicken, just wrings its neck.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#404 โ€“ Lee Cronin: Controversial Nature Paper on Evolution of Life and Universe

I think it's in The Fabric of Reality from David Deutsch, where basically the farmer is feeding the chicken every day, and the chicken's getting fat and happy, and the chicken's like, I'm really happy. Every time the farmer comes in and feeds me, and then one day the farmer comes in and instead of feeding the chicken, just wrings its neck.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#404 โ€“ Lee Cronin: Controversial Nature Paper on Evolution of Life and Universe

Oh, I'm impressed. Right. I'm impressed. Increasingly so. But we're mining the past. Yes. And what the human brain appears to be able to do is mine the future. Yes.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#404 โ€“ Lee Cronin: Controversial Nature Paper on Evolution of Life and Universe

Oh, I'm impressed. Right. I'm impressed. Increasingly so. But we're mining the past. Yes. And what the human brain appears to be able to do is mine the future. Yes.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#404 โ€“ Lee Cronin: Controversial Nature Paper on Evolution of Life and Universe

Oh, I'm impressed. Right. I'm impressed. Increasingly so. But we're mining the past. Yes. And what the human brain appears to be able to do is mine the future. Yes.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#404 โ€“ Lee Cronin: Controversial Nature Paper on Evolution of Life and Universe

I can show on the back of a piece of paper why that's impossible. And it's like the problem is that, and again, there's domain experts kind of bullshitting each other. The term generative, right? Average person, oh, it's generative. No, no, no.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#404 โ€“ Lee Cronin: Controversial Nature Paper on Evolution of Life and Universe

I can show on the back of a piece of paper why that's impossible. And it's like the problem is that, and again, there's domain experts kind of bullshitting each other. The term generative, right? Average person, oh, it's generative. No, no, no.