On Constructing Reality with Joscha Bach

About this episode

This episode features Joscha Bach discussing the intersection of human and machine intelligence.

Questions, suggestions, or feedback? Send us a message! Our guest this week is Joscha Bach. He is a German cognitive scientist, artificial-intelligence researcher and philosopher of mind who consistently bridges the gap between what human intelligence is and what machines could become. He has an MA in computer science and a PhD in cognitive science. Over the course of his career he has held research positions at institutions such as the MIT Media Lab and the Harvard Program for Evolutionary D...

People in this episode

Hosts: Omid Ashtari, Natascha McElhone

Guest: Joscha Bach

Topics covered

• cognitive science
• artificial intelligence
• philosophy of mind
• human intelligence
• machine intelligence

Keywords

• cognitive science
• artificial intelligence
• philosophy
• human intelligence
• machine learning

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: MIT Media Lab, Harvard Program for Evolutionary Dynamics

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