#255 — The Future of Intelligence

Making Sense with Sam Harris

Waking Up with Sam Harris

Samharris, Currentevents, Politics, Ethics, Religion, Neuroscience, Science, Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.6 • 29.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of the podcast, 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 “alignment problem,” the distinction between reason and emotion, the “illusory truth effect,” bad outcomes vs existential risk, and other topics.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Making Sense Podcast.
0:09.1	This is Sam Harris.
0:11.3	Just a note to say that if you're hearing this, you are not currently on our subscriber
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0:34.6	of our subscribers.
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0:47.0	Today I'm speaking with Jeff Hawkins.
0:49.9	Jeff is the co-founder of Numenta, a neuroscience research company, and also the founder of the
0:56.0	Redwood Neuroscience Institute.
0:58.9	And before that, he was one of the founders of the field of handheld computing, starting
1:04.1	Palm and Hansbring.
1:07.5	He's also a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
1:11.0	And he's the author of two books.
1:12.7	The first is on intelligence.
1:15.5	And the second and most recent is a thousand brains, a new theory of intelligence.
1:22.3	And Jeff and I talk about intelligence from a few different sides here.
1:27.8	We start with the brain.
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