Statistics and the Bayesian mind |
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| Authors: | Thomas L Griffiths |
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| Institution: | Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology and the Cognitive Science Program at the University of California, Berkeley. Joshua B. Tenenbaum is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Their research explores formal models of human cognition, using ideas from statistics, machine learning and artificial intelligence to explain how people effortlessly solve the challenging computational problems posed by everyday life. |
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| Abstract: | Did German flying bombs really target the poorer areas of London—or did the poor people underneath them just think that they did? How many millions of dollars will the current re-make of King Kong really gross? Oh, and how many taxis are there in London? The human mind can make very good guesses, it seems—and it uses Bayesian analysis to do so. Tom Griffiths and Joshua Tenenbaum explain. |
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