Tom Griffiths on Cognitive Science and AI

Tom Griffiths
Tom Griffiths

This is a guest post by Finan Adamson, 8 September 2016

Prof. Tom Griffiths is the director of the Computational Cognitive Science Lab and the Institute of Cognitive and Brain Sciences at UC Berkeley. He studies human cognition and is involved with the Center for Human Compatible Artificial Intelligence. I asked him for insight into the intersection of cognitive science and AI. He offers his thoughts on the historical interaction of the fields and what aspects of human cognition might be relevant to developing AI in the future.

The conversation notes are here (pdf).

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