Ep105 "What if AI is not actually intelligent?" (with Alison Gopnik)
Ep105 "What if AI is not actually intelligent?" (with Alison Gopnik)  
Podcast: Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman
Published On: Mon May 19 2025
Description: Is AI an intelligent agent, or is there a different way we should be thinking about it? Is it more like a piece of cultural technology? What in the world is a piece of cultural technology -- and how would re-thinking this change our next steps? What does any of this have to do with the myth of the Golem, printing presses, Socrates, Martin Luther, or the story of stone soup? Join Eagleman this week with cognitive scientist Alison Gopnik for a new take on a new tech.