Two Neuroscientists Explain What You Probably Get Wrong About AI
Experts reveal how AI could change our ideas about consciousness, intelligence, and what it means to be human in this new era. What happens when two of Britain’s top neuroscientists and AI researchers sit down to talk about artificial intelligence? You don’t get the usual hype about machines taking over the world. Instead, you get a crash course in how technology rewires the human brain, why cats are more impressive than chess grandmasters, and what Aristotle got wrong about reading. Steve Fleming (Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London) and Chris Summerfield (Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Oxford/Google DeepMind) aren’t Silicon Valley futurists. They’re researchers who spend their days studying how humans make decisions, reflect on themselves, and learn. That’s refreshing if you’re just done with hearing about AI hype. When they talk about AI, they don’t see it as an alien threat. They see it as another in a long line of technologies th...