Paul Thagard on AI, Free Energy Principle, and the Cognitive Science of Misinformation @RahulSam

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Prof. Paul Thagard is a philosopher and cognitive scientist. He is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Waterloo and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the Cognitive Science Society, and the Association for Psychological Science. He's authored myriad interdisciplinary books, including a treatise on Mind and Society, and recently published his new book, Falsehoods Fly: Why Misinformation Spreads and How to Stop It. In this episode, we discuss AI, neural networks, ChatGPT and LLMs, Karl Friston's free energy principle, explanatory coherence, philosophy of science and mitigating misinformation.

You can find more of Prof. Thagard's work at paulthagard.com

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cambridge.org/core/journals/behavioral-and-brain-sciences/article/abs/explanatory-coherence/E05CB61CD64C26138E794BC601CC9D7A
psychologytoday.com/au/blog/hot-thought/202105/is-writing-agony-or-ecstasy
psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/hot-thought/201311/how-write-productively
https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262700924/coherence-in-thought-and-action/
psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/hot-thought/202401/how-to-stop-misinformation
https://cup.columbia.edu/book/balance/9780231205580
goodreads.com/en/book/show/7530965
https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262548540/bots-and-beasts/
cogsci.uwaterloo.ca/Articles/successful.pdf
psychologytoday.com/us/blog/hot-thought/202202/the-real-problem-consciousness

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$Paul Thagard on AI, Free Energy Principle, and the Cognitive Science of Misinformation Prof. Paul Thagard is a philosopher and cognitive scientist. He is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Waterloo and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the Cognitive Science Society, and the Association for Psychological Science. Hes authored myriad interdisciplinary books, including a treatise on Mind and Society, and recently published his new book, Falsehoods Fly: Why Misinformation Spreads and How to Stop It. In this episode, we discuss AI, neural networks, ChatGPT and LLMs, Karl Fristons free energy principle, explanatory coherence, philosophy of science and mitigating misinformation. You can find more of Prof. Thagards work at https://paulthagard.com/ RSam Podcast #35 {Podcast} Substack: https://rsampod.substack.com/ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4ryEqjut4r6SMtfxLdM1Le Anchor: https://anchor.fm/rahul-samaranayake {Website} https://rahulsam.me/ {Social Media} https://twitter.com/trsam97 https://www.instagram.com/name_is_rahul/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/rahul-samaranayake-981a9315b/ {Reference Links} https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/behavioral-and-brain-sciences/article/abs/explanatory-coherence/E05CB61CD64C26138E794BC601CC9D7A https://www.psychologytoday.com/au/blog/hot-thought/202105/is-writing-agony-or-ecstasy https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/hot-thought/201311/how-write-productively https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262700924/coherence-in-thought-and-action/ https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/hot-thought/202401/how-to-stop-misinformation https://cup.columbia.edu/book/balance/9780231205580 https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/7530965 https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262548540/bots-and-beasts/ http://cogsci.uwaterloo.ca/Articles/successful.pdf https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/hot-thought/202202/the-real-problem-consciousness If the ideas I discuss in this channel evoke your interest, consider visiting https://theunhappyman.substack.com/ Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. 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GitHub repository: https://github.com/TRahulSam1997/Effective-Java-Joshua-Bloch/tree/main/src/main/java/chapter3/item11 Joshua Blochs GitHub repository: https://github.com/jbloch/effective-java-3e-source-code/tree/master/src/effectivejava/chapter3/item11 Book: https://www.amazon.com.au/Effective-Java-Joshua-Bloch/dp/0134685997/ Full playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcJ6nqGscKrd2UxeLTY-fIr0dzdMIOHAK {Podcast} Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4ryEqjut4r6SMtfxLdM1Le Anchor: https://anchor.fm/rahul-samaranayake {Website} https://rahulsam.me/ {Social Media} https://twitter.com/trsam97 https://www.minds.com/trahulsam/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/rahul-samaranayake-981a9315b/ https://trahulsam.medium.com/ https://www.instagram.com/name_is_rahul/ Facebook Group: https://goo.gl/JoL9CA {Reference Links} https://www.educative.io/answers/what-is-a-hash-code-in-java https://www.educative.io/answers/what-is-hashing https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/time-is-complex-but-priceless-f0abd015063c/ https://www.bigocheatsheet.com/ https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/java-program-to-demonstrate-the-lazy-initialization-thread-safe/ https://www.baeldung.com/java-volatile-vs-atomic https://www.edureka.co/blog/join-method-java https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40788006/what-does-exact-value-returned-by-their-hashcode-mean If the ideas I discuss in this channel evoke your interest, consider visiting https://theunhappyman.substack.com/ Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. 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Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statutes that might otherwise be infringing. If you are or represent the copyright owner of materials used in this video and have a problem with the use of the related material, please email me at mrrahulmaxcontact@gmail.com, and we can sort it out. Thank you.$ $Effective Java By Joshua Bloch Item 1: Consider Static Factory Methods Instead Of Constructors My disquisition on Item 1 of Effective Java by Joshua Bloch: Consider Static Factory Methods Instead Of Constructors. GitHub repository: https://github.com/TRahulSam1997/Effective-Java-Joshua-Bloch/tree/main/src/main/java/Item1 Book: https://www.amazon.com.au/Effective-Java-Joshua-Bloch/dp/0134685997/ Full playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcJ6nqGscKrd2UxeLTY-fIr0dzdMIOHAK {Podcast} Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4ryEqjut4r6SMtfxLdM1Le Anchor: https://anchor.fm/rahul-samaranayake {Social Media} https://twitter.com/trsam97 https://www.minds.com/trahulsam/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/rahul-samaranayake-981a9315b/ https://trahulsam.medium.com/ https://www.instagram.com/name_is_rahul/ Facebook Group: https://goo.gl/JoL9CA {Reference Links & Resources For Further Study} https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/math/BigInteger.html https://youtu.be/OPLQQ6x9weQ https://www.baeldung.com/java-enumset https://www.tutorialspoint.com/jdbc-class-forname-vs-drivermanager-registerdriver https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11823773/understanding-the-concept-behind-service-provider-framework-like-jdbc-using-the https://www.baeldung.com/java-spi https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22470316/does-a-subclass-need-to-have-a-constructor https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/java/IandI/subclasses.html https://www.baeldung.com/java-9-stackwalking-api https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/metaspace-in-java-8-with-examples/ If the ideas I discuss in this channel evoke your interest, consider visiting REALM: https://www.realmprojectau.com/ Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. 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The working title for her dissertation is “Why Theology Matters”, where she will discuss the components of Theological studies and analyse how it is relevant to modern philosophy and science. I discuss Christianity, morality and Kant with her. Mettalias YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@misguided_pilgrim {Podcast} Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4ryEqjut4r6SMtfxLdM1Le Anchor: https://anchor.fm/rahul-samaranayake {Website} https://rahulsam.me/ {Social Media} https://twitter.com/trsam97 https://www.minds.com/trahulsam/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/rahul-samaranayake-981a9315b/ https://trahulsam.medium.com/ https://www.instagram.com/name_is_rahul/ Facebook Group: https://goo.gl/JoL9CA If the ideas I discuss in this channel evoke your interest, consider visiting https://theunhappyman.substack.com/ Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statutes that might otherwise be infringing. 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