Daniel Kahneman: Thinking Fast and Slow, Deep Learning, and AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #65

ℹ️ EPISODE INFO

Released

January 14, 2020

Duration

1h 18m

Channel

Lex Fridman Podcast

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🎤 SPEAKERS

• Daniel Kahneman

  guest

• Lex Fridman

  host

🧾 EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of Lex Fridman Podcast, featuring Daniel Kahneman and Lex Fridman, Daniel Kahneman: Thinking Fast and Slow, Deep Learning, and AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #65 explores daniel Kahneman on human thinking, AI limits, and life’s stories Daniel Kahneman and Lex Fridman explore the dual-process view of the mind—fast, automatic System 1 and slow, effortful System 2—and how these shape judgment, decision-making, and everyday life. They connect these ideas to modern AI, arguing current deep learning resembles a powerful but limited System 1 that lacks reasoning, causality, and grounding in the real world. Kahneman discusses happiness, the split between the experiencing and remembering selves, and why we live more for stories and memories than for moment-to-moment experience. They also examine the challenges of human–machine collaboration, the replication crisis in psychology, and the difficulty humans have changing deeply held beliefs or finding any satisfying “meaning of life.”

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