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#380 – Neil Gershenfeld: Self-Replicating Robots and the Future of Fabrication
Lex Fridman Podcast
The Evolution of Deep Learning
Deep neural networks used in machine learning diverged from trying to understand how the brain works what makes them work. There's an interesting conversation that's sort of coming back of neuroscientists looking over the shoulder of people training these deep networks seeing interesting echoes for how the brain worked. I view the question about whether a large language model is conscious as silly in that biology is full of hacks and it works there's no evidence we have that there's anything deeper going on than just this sort of stacking up of hacks in the brain, he says.
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