BI 056 Tom Griffiths: The Limits of Cognition

Brain Inspired

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I speak with Tom Griffiths about his “resource-rational framework”, inspired by Herb Simon’s bounded rationality and Stuart Russel’s bounded optimality concepts. The resource-rational framework illuminates how the constraints of optimizing our available cognition can help us understand what algorithms our brains use to get things done, and can serve as a bridge between Marr’s computational, algorithmic, and implementation levels of understanding. We also talk cognitive prostheses, artificial general intelligence, consciousness, and more.

Visit Tom’s Computational Cognitive Science Lab.
Check out his book with Brian Christian, Algorithms To Live By.
Some of the papers we discuss or mention:
- Rational Use of Cognitive Resources: Levels of Analysis Between the Computational and the Algorithmic.
- Resource-rational analysis: understanding human cognition as the optimal use of limited computational resources.
Data on the mind – the data repository we discussed briefly
A paper that discusses it: Finding the traces of behavioral and cognitive processes in big data and naturally occurring datasets.