Ep39 - What a Victorian Biologist Can Teach Us About Thinking

About this episode

The episode explores the insights of a Victorian biologist and discusses the limitations of AI in thinking.

I came to Eduardo's office expecting to talk about cells and data. What I found on his wall were the illustrations of Ernst Haeckel, a 19th-century German naturalist whose drawings of jellyfish, radiolaria and embryos were so beautiful they shaped how an entire generation understood life on earth. That felt like the right place to start. What followed was one of the more honest conversations I've had about AI. Eduardo's argument isn't complicated: the only thing AI won't do for you is think. ...

People in this episode

Host: Tediophobes

Guest: Eduardo

Topics covered

• Victorian biology
• AI
• naturalism
• illustration
• Ernst Haeckel
• life sciences

Keywords

• Victorian biologist
• Ernst Haeckel
• AI
• naturalist
• illustrations
• cells
• data

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