Lex Fridman PodcastDaniel Kahneman: Thinking Fast and Slow, Deep Learning, and AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #65
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- Released
- January 14, 2020
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- 1h 18m
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- Lex Fridman Podcast
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Daniel Kahneman is winner of the Nobel Prize in economics for his integration of economic science with the psychology of human behavior, judgment and decision-making. He is the author of the popular book "Thinking, Fast and Slow" that summarizes in an accessible way his research of several decades, often in collaboration with Amos Tversky, on cognitive biases, prospect theory, and happiness. The central thesis of this work is a dichotomy between two modes of thought: "System 1" is fast, instinctive and emotional; "System 2" is slower, more deliberative, and more logical. The book delineates cognitive biases associated with each type of thinking. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our sponsors: https://lexfridman.com/sponsors/ep65-sb See below for timestamps, and to give feedback, submit questions, contact Lex, etc. *CONTACT LEX:* *Feedback* - give feedback to Lex: https://lexfridman.com/survey *AMA* - submit questions, videos or call-in: https://lexfridman.com/ama *Hiring* - join our team: https://lexfridman.com/hiring *Other* - other ways to get in touch: https://lexfridman.com/contact *OUTLINE:* 0:00 - Introduction 2:36 - Lessons about human behavior from WWII 8:19 - System 1 and system 2: thinking fast and slow 15:17 - Deep learning 30:01 - How hard is autonomous driving? 35:59 - Explainability in AI and humans 40:08 - Experiencing self and the remembering self 51:58 - Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl 54:46 - How much of human behavior can we study in the lab? 57:57 - Collaboration 1:01:09 - Replication crisis in psychology 1:09:28 - Disagreements and controversies in psychology 1:13:01 - Test for AGI 1:16:17 - Meaning of life *PODCAST LINKS:*
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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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