Tom Griffiths: Podcast Interviews

Tom Griffiths, PhD

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Cognitive scientist, Author

3 Interviews

Tom Griffiths's Interviews

Paul Middlebrooks & Tom Griffiths • 22 Dec 2019 • EN

BI 056 Tom Griffiths: The Limits of Cognition

I speak with Tom Griffiths about his “resource-rational framework”, inspired by Herb Simon's bounded rationality and Stuart Russel’s bounded optimality concepts. The resource-rational framework illuminates how the constraints of optimizing our available cognition can help us understand what algorithms our brains use to

Julia Galef & Brian Christian + Tom Griffiths • 12 Jun 2016 • EN

Rationally Speaking #161 - Tom Griffiths and Brian Christian on "Algorithms to Live By"

Julia chats with the authors of Algorithms to Live By, about how to apply key algorithms from computer science to our real life problems. For example, deciding which apartment to rent, planning your career, and prioritizing your projects. In the process, they discuss the assumptions that underlie those algorithms (and

Julia Galef & Tom Griffiths • 06 Mar 2016 • EN

Rationally Speaking #154 - Tom Griffiths on "Why your brain might be rational after all"

You've probably heard about cognitive biases -- the systematic errors human brains make when we try to reason or make decisions. But what if our biases are actually a sign of rationality? This episode features Tom Griffiths, professor of cognitive science at University of California, Berkeley and the director of the Co