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Published · transcript-backedAdam Marblestone: evaluation
30 Dec 2025 Dwarkesh Podcast Adam Marblestone — AI is missing something fundamental about the brain
“The cortex inherently has the ability to generalize because it’s just predicting based on these very abstract variables and all these integrated information that it has.”
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- Adam Marblestone
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- evaluation
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- 30 Dec 2025
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
Transcript context
…If you keep going, I’m going to put in a trigger warning. That’s because you learned this. The cortex inherently has the ability to generalize because it’s just predicting based on these very abstract variables and all these integrated information that it has. Whereas the Steering Subsystem only can use whatever the superior colliculus and a few other sensors can spit out. By the way, it’s remarkable that the person who’s made this connection between different pieces of neuroscience, Steve Byrnes, is a former physicist. For the last few years, he’s been trying to synthesize—…
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