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The speaker thinks understanding neural networks might deepen human understanding of intelligence, whereas totally alien neural networks might teach people nothing about themselves.
Tom McGrath · Designing How AI Grows — Tom McGrath · 2 Sept 2026
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“and also a sign that we might like understand intelligence more deeply by understanding neural networks you know if they were totally alien then we might not understand anything about ourselves”Play from 12:14Report a misattribution
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