Juergen Hahn: Can Algorithms Do Critical Thinking? (And How AI Changes Education)
Juergen Hahn has spent decades debugging complex systems - from chemical plants to the human body. He's published 128+ papers, mentored 40+ graduate students, and pioneered data science approaches for autism diagnosis.
He's also my former professor from Texas A&M.
In this conversation, we explore whether algorithms can ever do critical thinking, what happens to education when GenAI can answer everything, and why asking the right questions might be the only skill that matters in the automation age.
We discuss:
Why AI models are "just interpolating data" [15:30]
What makes critical thinking…
The skinny
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