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BI 240 Cristopher Moore: Cognition and Computational Complexity


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Cristopher Moore is a professor at the Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico, and he is a computation and computational complexity expert. He recently joined a us in my complexity discussion group, and answered a bunch of our questions, but I wasn't done with him regarding what, if anything, computational complexity has to do understanding how brains and minds work. So that's why he's here today, and we discuss a wide variety of topics related to AI, computation, computational complexity, and cognition.

  • Cris's Homepage
  • Book:
    • The Nature of Computation
    • Related papers
      • What Is a Macrostate? Subjective Observations and Objective Dynamics
      • 0:00 - Intro

        4:24 - The Nature of Computation
        9:14 - Computational complexity
        28:22 - Real mathematics
        35:08 - Current state of AI
        39:04 - Computational complexity in the AI world
        47:53 - Cognition, creation, problems
        56:16 - Rugged landscapes and generalization
        1:13:52 - What is computation?
        1:32:31 - How would you study the brain?

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