#255 — The Future of Intelligence

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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