{"id":132501,"date":"2021-12-16T06:23:16","date_gmt":"2021-12-16T14:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/nobel-prize-winner-daniel-kahneman-just-explained-what-hes-learned-about-ai-outsmarting-humans"},"modified":"2021-12-16T06:23:16","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T14:23:16","slug":"nobel-prize-winner-daniel-kahneman-just-explained-what-hes-learned-about-ai-outsmarting-humans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/nobel-prize-winner-daniel-kahneman-just-explained-what-hes-learned-about-ai-outsmarting-humans","title":{"rendered":"Nobel Prize-Winner Daniel Kahneman Just Explained What He\u2019s Learned About AI Outsmarting Humans"},"content":{"rendered":"

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That was a key takeaway from a conversation between economist Daniel Kahneman<\/a> and MIT professor of brain and cognitive science Josh Tenenbaum at the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS<\/a>) recently. The pair spoke during the virtual event about the shortcomings of humans and what we can learn from them while building A.I.<\/p>\n

Kahneman, a Nobel Prize winner in economic sciences and the author of Thinking, Fast and Slow<\/em><\/a>, noted an instance in which humans use judgment heuristics\u2014shortcuts, essentially\u2014to answer questions they don\u2019t know the answer to. In the example, people are given a small amount of information about a student: She\u2019s about to graduate, and she was reading fluently when she was 4 years old. From that, they\u2019re asked to estimate her grade point average.<\/p>\n

Using this information, many people will estimate the student\u2019s GPA to be 3.7 or 3.8. To arrive there, Kahneman explained, they assign her a percentile on the intelligence scale\u2014usually very high, given what they know about her reading ability at a young age. Then they assign her a GPA in what they estimate to be the corresponding percentile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

That was a key takeaway from a conversation between economist Daniel Kahneman and MIT professor of brain and cognitive science Josh Tenenbaum at the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) recently. The pair spoke during the virtual event about the shortcomings of humans and what we can learn from them while building A.I. Kahneman, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}