Uploaded April 2024 | Updated September 2026, 20 hours ago
About the Speaker:
Alison Gopnik, Distinguished Professor of Psychology, Affiliate Professor of Philosophy, and Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research Group, Department of Psychology
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Gopnik will argue that the human developmental life-history is designed to accommodate intrinsic trade-offs between different types of cognitive capacities. The extended human childhood allows a period of protected high-temperature exploration, adulthood allows exploitation and resource gathering and post-menopausal elderhood allows caregiving and cultural transmission. Each period involves motivations and computational capacities that are in tension with those of other periods, but the full suite of development allows for maximal adaptation to changing and variable environments. Gopnik will also suggest lessons from this life-history for AI .
Hosted by:
UCI School of Social Sciences - Center for Theoretical Behavioral Sciences (CTBS)
About the Speaker:
Alison Gopnik, Distinguished Professor of Psychology, Affiliate Professor of Philosophy, and Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research Group, Department of Psychology
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Gopnik will argue that the human developmental life-history is designed to accommodate intrinsic trade-offs between different types of cognitive capacities. The extended human childhood allows a period of protected high-temperature exploration, adulthood allows exploitation and resource gathering and post-menopausal elderhood allows caregiving and cultural transmission. Each period involves motivations and computational capacities that are in tension with those of other periods, but the full suite of development allows for maximal adaptation to changing and variable environments. Gopnik will also suggest lessons from this life-history for AI .
Hosted by:
UCI School of Social Sciences - Center for Theoretical Behavioral Sciences (CTBS)
