Vivienne Ming

Propose a crazy idea that probably isn't right, but if it is, it might change everything.

Dr. Vivian Ming is a neuroscientist and author of Robot Proof, and she spent 30 years building AI.

If you want to be on Vivian's team, she expects you to question her thinking.

That's a hard thing for a 20-year-old to do to an angry old lady.

There is a way to use AI to help us, actually.

Like the, there's a neuroscientist, Dr. Vivienne Ming, who says she likes to call it productive friction, and I've heard that term and, and, like, started to use it now.

Like, the, it's the idea that AI should not just make work easier, but it can act like a sparring partner.

And so we use it to challenge our ideas and, like, help us compare against alternatives and push towards better questions.

So I want to talk about raising children.

I did a podcast with a friend of mine, an alumna from UCSD, Vivian Ming, about her book called Robot Proof, which kind of is, you know, encouraging a lot of these different, you know, principles, first principles for raising children and surviving, you know, and thriving in age of AI and robots, as she calls them.

So, you mentioned before, and we discussed it, my resistance to letting my writing be changed by the predilections of these models because I feel like this is who I am.

Maybe people will suspect it just like they suspect I dye my hair with Just For Men.

Uh, the...

So Randy Bailey already mentioned Vivian Ming, uh, in the comments.

She has a-

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