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Ep58 "What do brains teach us about whether AI is creative?"

5/13/2024 • 42 min

From a neuroscience point of view, what is creativity? How does it shine light on the current lawsuits over large language models and whether they produce anything fundamentally new... or are simply remixing the old? How do the arts expose something important about what's happening in the human brain? What do we know about the cultural evolution of ideas? And wh… Play episode

Ep57 "When should new technologies enter the courtroom?"
Rebroadcast of Ep7 "Is AI truly intelligent? How would we know if it got t…
Ep56 "Why do we care so much about touch?"
Ep55 "Could a brain plugin instantly teach you to fly a helicopter?"
Ep54 "Where do you end and others begin?"
Ep 53 " Can societies fight better? "
Ep 52 "What is lucid dreaming?" (Sleeping & Dreaming Part 3)
Ep 51 "Why do brains dream?"
Ep50 "Why do we spend 1/3 of our lives asleep?" (Sleeping & Dreaming Part …
Ep49 "Can you read the brain to detect a lie?
Ep48 "Why do brains become depressed?"
Ep47 "Wheels rotate backwards on TV, but do they ever in real life?"
Ep46 "Who says you're dead?"
Ep45 "Why did a man shoot himself after hearing the lottery numbers?" (Tim…
Ep44 "Why can't you tickle yourself?" (Time Traveling Part 2)
Ep43 "How do we remember?" (Time Traveling Part 1)
Ep42 "Is there any such thing as true news?" (Truth Part 3: Artificial Int…
Ep41 "Is there any such thing as true news?" (Truth Part 2: the Internet)
Ep40 "Is there any such thing as true news?" (Truth Part1)
Ep39 "What is the future of AI relationships?"
Ep38 "Why is it hard to teach an old brain new tricks?"
Ep37 "What is Insanity?" Part 2
Inner Cosmos Inbox 2
Ep36 "What is Insanity?" Part 1
Ep35 "What sticks in your brain and what doesn’t? "
Ep34 "What is intelligence?"
Ep33 "Why do they start sprinters with a bang instead of a flash?"
Ep32 "Is death reversible?"
Inner Cosmos Inbox 1
Ep31 "Why do we see #TheDress differently?"
Ep30 "What does it mean to know thyself in the age of neuroscience?" Part 2
Ep29 "What does it mean to know thyself?" Part 1
Ep28 "Does your language shape your thinking?"
Ep27 "Can we read brains at an airport to know who's going to bomb a plane…
Ep26 "Why do people dislike moist more than moose, but not as much as mert…
Ep25 "Why are we so easy to fool?"
Ep24 "What does drug withdrawal have in common with heartbreak?"
Ep23 "How can we learn to speak alien?"
Ep22 "What do we find beautiful?"
Ep21 "How far would you follow authority?"
Ep20 "Why does your brain care more about some people than others?"
Ep19 "How far can you trust your memory?"
Ep18 "Could you upload your brain to live forever?"
Ep17 "What is consciousness?"
Ep16 "Why is everyone who disagrees with you misinformed?"
Ep15 "What should happen when someone with a brain tumor breaks the law?"
Ep14 "Why do we have so little access to what’s happening under the hood?"
Ep13 "Will you perceive the event that kills you?"
Ep12 "Can we create new senses for humans?"

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