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François Chollet: Keras and Measures of Intelligence

The Gradient: Perspectives on AI

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Is Software Engineering a Mindset?

I believe that programming is really about building clear mental models of something. And I do wonder, maybe separately from the measure of intelligence paper, how perhaps your time building Keras has been formative in your thinking about AI and intelligence more broadly. Totally. In general, I think software engineering is very much a mindset. It's almost like a way of life. So as you become a professional software engineer, as you build a Keran software engineering, it profoundly changes the way you think.

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