Fundraising Command Center Podcast

AI and the Illusion of Understanding


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Richard Feynman once said, "You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you’re finished, you’ll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird."

Today, AI knows the names. It holds the tokens of human experience in a vast, high-dimensional vector space. It knows the story, but it lacks the understanding.

In this episode, we strip away the technical jargon to look at the philosophy of generation. We discuss why AI is a master of syntax but a stranger to meaning. We explore why an AI output is a number, but a human life is a story.

Tune in for a deep dive into the gap between the calculation of a word and the weight of a feeling.

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