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What, if anything, do AIs understand? (with ChatGPT Co-Creator Ilya Sutskever)

Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

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The Future of AI Systems

I think this is one area where humans and the human brain operates differently from our neural networks. So maybe we're confused about this idea that memorization is a bad thing just because in early AI systems, it happened to often show that you had not trained properly but it's not inherently a problem. Perhaps it is possible to do better than just memorizing everything. But my statement is different. My statement is that the gold standard formalism of generalization or at least a gold standard formalist, Bayesian inference is very consistent with you memorize everything yet you fully generalize. That's really interesting. We've talked about how these systems work. I want to now switch and talk about

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