What podcasts say about Terrence Joseph Sejnowski
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What Terrence Joseph Sejnowski has said on podcasts
20 statements · 7 positive · 10 negative · 3 neutral
The long-term consequences of AI use cannot currently be predicted.
“We can't predict where it's going to end up.”
Open the episode · Most Replayed Moment: Brain Rot Experts - How To Use AI In A Healthy Way!Listen at 0:22
Electronic calculators reduce brain activity but increase accuracy and productivity.
“it's probably true that when they punch it in, there's less brain activity, but in fact, it's, it's made them more accurate, more productive.”
Open the episode · Most Replayed Moment: Brain Rot Experts - How To Use AI In A Healthy Way!Listen at 0:51
Misusing AI by outsourcing thinking will worsen brain function.
“If you misuse it that way, then your brain is going to go downhill.”
Open the episode · Most Replayed Moment: Brain Rot Experts - How To Use AI In A Healthy Way!Listen at 5:09
Cognitively positive AI use can enable deeper thinking.
“It is possible to be able to use it in a cognitively positive way because you can dig deeper.”
Open the episode · Most Replayed Moment: Brain Rot Experts - How To Use AI In A Healthy Way!Listen at 5:16
Appropriate AI use might improve cognitive representations.
“You might actually improve your cognitive representations.”
Open the episode · Most Replayed Moment: Brain Rot Experts - How To Use AI In A Healthy Way!Listen at 5:25
Questioning AI outputs can build brain circuits supporting critical thinking.
“it's through that process, as you would with a teacher, you know, that's the way we work in school. that's where you help create new creative circuits in the brain that are going to help you become a better critical thinker.”
Open the episode · Most Replayed Moment: Brain Rot Experts - How To Use AI In A Healthy Way!Listen at 6:58
Failing to question ChatGPT outputs prevents development of critical thinking.
“if you're not critically questioning what comes out of ChatGPT, then you won't.”
Open the episode · Most Replayed Moment: Brain Rot Experts - How To Use AI In A Healthy Way!Listen at 7:16
Using AI to generate work from minimal prompting is the wrong approach.
“That's exactly the wrong way to use it.”
Open the episode · Most Replayed Moment: Brain Rot Experts - How To Use AI In A Healthy Way!Listen at 8:04
Minimal-effort AI use will not improve the user's brain.
“you're not gonna improve yourself, your brain, at all if you do that.”
Open the episode · Most Replayed Moment: Brain Rot Experts - How To Use AI In A Healthy Way!Listen at 8:11
Terry Sejnowski says Sam Altman is not trustworthy.
“I wouldn't trust him with anything in terms of anything he says.”
Open the episode · Most Replayed Moment: Brain Rot Experts - How To Use AI In A Healthy Way!Listen at 10:44
OpenAI is optimizing profits rather than users' experience or health.
“They're trying to optimize their profits, not your use of it or your experience or, you know, your health.”
Open the episode · Most Replayed Moment: Brain Rot Experts - How To Use AI In A Healthy Way!Listen at 10:48
One-on-one teaching by a knowledgeable adult is best for children.
“By far the best way to teach a child is one-on-one interaction with an adult who is a good teacher and knows the child.”
Open the episode · Most Replayed Moment: Brain Rot Experts - How To Use AI In A Healthy Way!Listen at 12:45
A well-trained educational AI could improve children's brains.
“if you had an AI that was trained to be a good teacher, then that could improve the brain”
Open the episode · Most Replayed Moment: Brain Rot Experts - How To Use AI In A Healthy Way!Listen at 13:18
Current AI systems are biased and may not share users' cultural values.
“these AIs are biased. They don't have the same cultural values that we have necessarily.”
Open the episode · Most Replayed Moment: Brain Rot Experts - How To Use AI In A Healthy Way!Listen at 13:49
Current large language models lack basal ganglia and biological reinforcement learning.
“these large language models don't have basal ganglia. They don't use reinforcement learning.”
Open the episode · Most Replayed Moment: Brain Rot Experts - How To Use AI In A Healthy Way!Listen at 14:13
Many reported emotional relationships with AI are probably transient.
“a lot of them is transient, right?”
Open the episode · Most Replayed Moment: Brain Rot Experts - How To Use AI In A Healthy Way!Listen at 22:23
AI currently mimics human emotions without actually possessing them.
“It doesn't have them. It might someday, but not now.”
Open the episode · Most Replayed Moment: Brain Rot Experts - How To Use AI In A Healthy Way!Listen at 22:40
AI romantic relationships are unlikely to provide lasting satisfaction.
“my guess is that it's not going to be— it's not a long-term thing. It's not, uh, gonna satisfy him in the long term.”
Open the episode · Most Replayed Moment: Brain Rot Experts - How To Use AI In A Healthy Way!Listen at 23:04
Brain maturation depends on struggle and learning from mistakes.
“The way that the brain matures is through struggling, number one. You have to learn from your mistakes.”
Open the episode · Most Replayed Moment: Brain Rot Experts - How To Use AI In A Healthy Way!Listen at 25:20
Memorization and practice are necessary foundations for fluency in core skills.
“you need to have a foundation. You have to memorize things in math, reading, and so forth to become fluent.”
Open the episode · Most Replayed Moment: Brain Rot Experts - How To Use AI In A Healthy Way!Listen at 33:57
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