Melanie Mitchell: Concepts, Analogies, Common Sense & Future of AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #61

Mitchell walks through the case she has made her career on: that concepts and analogies are the core of cognition, and that systems without them will keep surprising us with their brittleness. Recorded before the LLM wave, the conversation reads differently now — the questions she raises about common sense and abstraction are the ones the field is still arguing about, with much larger models and much higher stakes.