2024-10-02
2 小时 17 分钟Max Bennett (A Brief History of Intelligence) is a researcher and author. Max joins the Armchair Expert to discuss his lack of an academic background, how he became interested in the way the human brain works, and why neurons evolved. Max and Dax talk about reenforcement learning, how emotions developed in the human brain, and how artificial intelligence is being designed to have curiosity. Max explains the paper clip conundrum, how language allows us to transfer thoughts, and chain of thought prompting. Follow Armchair Expert on the Wondery App or wherever you get your podcasts. Watch new content on YouTube or listen to Armchair Expert early and ad-free by joining Wondery+ in the Wondery App, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify. Start your free trial by visiting wondery.com/links/armchair-expert-with-dax-shepard/ now. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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Welcome, welcome.
Welcome to Armchair Expert.
I'm Dan Shepard and I'm joined by Lily Padman.
Hi.
Let's start at the beginning.
Angela Duckworth.
Yes.
Gave us a few book recommendations, and one of them was a brief history of intelligence, evolution, AI and the five breakthroughs that made our brainstor.
And I read the book and I absolutely loved it.
And I've actually now read it two and a half times and been talking about it forever.
And this is the author.
Max Bennett is here.
Max is an entrepreneur, a researcher.
He started a company, Albie, an AI company, and he's very tall and very, very charming, very and shockingly and impossibly smart because this isn't really his field.
And yet he's really done a masterclass on the evolution of intelligence.
It's so fascinating and it's also broken down in a very, like, linear way, which is nice to follow.
The five breakthroughs.
So fun.