EP 103: Léon Bottou on Fiction Machines and the Limits of AI Alignment

from Brave New World -- hosted by Vasant Dhar · host Vasant Dhar

What separates fluency from understanding? Léon Bottou joins Vasant Dhar in Episode 103, Brave New World, to explore the deep question at the heart of AI. Useful Resources: 1. Léon Bottou2. Léon Bottou - The Fiction Machine3. Hopfield Network in AI4. Yann LeCun5. J. L. McClelland, D.E. Rumelhart and G.E. Hinton - The Appeal of Parallel Distributed Processing6. Claude Shannon - Entropy and Redundancy in English 7. Marvin Minsky - Music, Mind and Meaning8. Stafford Beer9. Navier-Stokes Equations10. Terry Sejnowski - Parallel Networks that Learn to Pronounce English Text 11. Christopher D. Manning12. Brave New World Episode 58: Sam Bowman on ChatGPT & Controlling AI13. De Morgan's laws Check out Vasant Dhar's newsletter on Substack. The subscription is free! Order Vasant Dhar's new book, Thinking With Machines

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