Epstein Secrets

mits on computational resources. The efficacy of human algorithms springs from what AI researchers refer to as “bounded optimality.” As psychologist Daniel Kahneman has notably pointed out, human beings are rational only up to a point. If you were perfectly rational, you would risk dropping dead before making an

e global fab lab network. Alison Gopnik is a developmental psychologist at UC Berkeley; her books include The Philosophical Baby and, most recently, Zhe Gardener and the Carpenter: What the New Science of Child Development Tells Us About the Relationship Between Parents and Children. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016805 T

xperiments like John Searle’s Chinese Room and Isaac Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics all appeal to the sorts of intuitions plaguing human brains that Daniel Kahneman, Amos Tversky, and others have demonstrated. The Chinese Room experiment posits that a mind composed of mechanical and Homo sapiens parts cannot be c

. “L. Schulz, “The origins of Inquiry: Inductive inference and exploration in early childhood,” Trends Cog. Sci., 16:7, 382-89 (2012). 4 A. Gopnik, Zhe Gardener and the Carpenter (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2016), chaps. 4 and 5. 157 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016960 paradox of learning, the best artificial i

mits on computational resources. The efficacy of human algorithms springs from what AI researchers refer to as “bounded optimality.” As psychologist Daniel Kahneman has notably pointed out, human beings are rational only up to a point. If you were perfectly rational, you would risk dropping dead before making an

e global fab lab network. Alison Gopnik is a developmental psychologist at UC Berkeley; her books include The Philosophical Baby and, most recently, Zhe Gardener and the Carpenter: What the New Science of Child Development Tells Us About the Relationship Between Parents and Children. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016222 T

xperiments like John Searle’s Chinese Room and Isaac Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics all appeal to the sorts of intuitions plaguing human brains that Daniel Kahneman, Amos Tversky, and others have demonstrated. The Chinese Room experiment posits that a mind composed of mechanical and Homo sapiens parts cannot be c

. “L. Schulz, “The origins of Inquiry: Inductive inference and exploration in early childhood,” Trends Cog. Sci., 16:7, 382-89 (2012). 4 A. Gopnik, Zhe Gardener and the Carpenter (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2016), chaps. 4 and 5. 157 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016377 paradox of learning, the best artificial i