Steve Levitt

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962 appearances 8 recordings 1 series first heard Dec 2024 last heard 31 Jul

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Freakonomics Radio · 682. Should A.I. Move to Space? · 24 Jul 2026 podcast

more philosophical issues, foundational issues.

Could you give some examples of the kinds of specific problems that your team is tackling?

So an example of what you might do would be to create a set of five or six different AI models

agents who were taking on different roles or personalities?

One is the skeptic, one is the optimist, or what specifically are you talking about?

I don't know anything about neuroscience, but I know my own experience is that

My brain works exactly like you've just described.

I've got four or five different parts of my brain that stake out different territory and some are risk-taking and some are cautious and some are skeptical.

So I definitely feel like my own brain is in no sense unified.

It's some kind of a competition for me.

for time on the stage.

What I've never been able to figure out at all, though, is who is the it that's behind the scenes?

Who's deciding who the winner is among these different voices?

Now, you published a book last year based in part on the work that you and your team are doing at the Paradigms of Intelligence team.

It's called What is Intelligence?

Lessons from AI about Evolution, Computing, and Minds.

It's full of a lot of very bold ideas.

Let me just hit on a few of those.

For instance, you argue that the primary function of intelligence and life itself is prediction.

What do you mean by that?

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