Making Sense with Sam Harris — #255 — The Future of Intelligence

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#255 — The Future of Intelligence

Making Sense with Sam Harris

Sam Harris speaks with Jeff Hawkins about the nature of intelligence. They discuss how the neocortex creates models of the world, the role of prediction in sensory-motor experience, cortical columns, reference frames, thought as movement in conceptual space, the future of artificial intelligence, AI risk, the…

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