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How Intelligence – Both Human and Artificial – Happens

How Intelligence – Both Human and Artificial – Happens

We talk to San Francisco State psychologist Gaurav Suri and Stanford's Jay McClelland about how neural networks work in our brains, and in AI.

KQED's Forum

October 22, 202554m 43s

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Show Notes

How exactly does the mind work? How do we learn and make decisions? And how does that compare to the way AI thinks? In their new book, “The Emergent Mind: How Intelligence Arises in People and Machines,” San Francisco State psychologist Gaurav Suri and Stanford’s Jay McClelland examine how neural networks work in our brains, and in AI.


Guests:

Gaurav Suri, computational neuroscientist and professor, San Francisco State University

Jay McClelland, professor and director of the Center for Mind, Brain, Computation and Technology, Stanford University

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