John Vervaeke - Why don't we have AI yet?

In this mind-opening talk entitled, "The bioeconomics of relevance realization and general intelligence" award-winning lecturer John Veraeke aims to explain why we do not have artificial intelligence (AI) yet by arguing for a new framework for understanding how people think, feel and interact with the world. Every cognitive scientist and artificial intelligence researcher should see this video.

Abstract:

Vervaeke, Lillicrap, and Richards (2012) have argued that the central problem facing cognitive science is explaining how cognitive agents selectively attend to relevant information while flexibly ignoring a vast amount of irrelevant information. They further argued that the processes of relevance realization are ultimately economic in nature. Relevance realization runs off the bioeconomic properties of information processing. Vervaeke and Ferraro (forthcoming) argued that relevance realization is the core process of general intelligence and that this is being implemented in the self-organized firing and wiring of the brain. In short, it is internal economics that makes us externally smart.

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