In this bonus episode of the Me, Myself, and AI podcast, Princeton University professor and artificial intelligence researcher Tom Griffiths joins host Sam Ransbotham to unpack The Laws of Thought, his new book exploring how math has been used for centuries to understand how minds ' human and machine ' actually work. Tom walks through three main frameworks shaping intelligence today ' rules and symbols, neural networks, and probability ' and he explains why modern AI only makes sense when you see how those pieces fit together. The conversation connects cognitive science, large language models, and the limits of human versus machine intelligence. Along the way, Tom and Sam dig into language, learning, and what humans still do better ' like judgment, curation, and metacognition. Tom Griffiths is the author of the new book The Laws of Thought: The Quest for Mathematical Theory of the Mind and the Henry R. Luce Professor of Information Technology, Consciousness, and Culture at Princeton...
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