WTF is Artificial Intelligence Really? | Yann LeCun x Nikhil Kamath | People by WTF Ep #4

A lot of us have heard conjectures around A.I., edge cases of the positive and negative side of A.I., and a lot of us are trying to predict what’s next. Most of my understanding of A.I. comes only from viewing what is apparent today.. reinforcement learning spaces like chat gpt becoming a go-to.. 

In this episode of People by WTF, we uncover the basics of this mystery of artificial intelligence with one of the founding fathers of A.I., Yann LeCun. We spoke about popular AI myths and broke down complex concepts that can perhaps help the next generation of builders build in this space. 

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**Timestamps:**

00:00 Yann’s Intro

01:50 Difference between an Engineer and a Scientist

03:15 Yann’s interest in AI and Mathematics

04:05 Godfather of AI | Yann’s feelings about it

05:22 Teaching & fame at NYU

06:00 Heroes in Science

07:46 Three problems with the world - Yann’s lens

10:18 What is AI and how did we get here?

13:13 What is intelligence? | The Elephant Analogy 

15:00 AI - perception & understanding

16:20 The two branches of AI - solving & learning

17:30 Emergence of classical computer science | Heuristic programming

20:15 Is A.I. inspired from biology?

26:36 Is building authentic models for finance possible through AI?

28:36 Different parts of A.I | GOFAI, Machine learning 

30:18 What is GOFAI? 

31:14 Different types of Machine Learning

32:22 What is Reinforcement learning?

33:19 What is Self supervised learning? Up & Coming 

35:14 Is AI telling you what you want to hear?

38:00 What is a transformer?

40:24 What is a back propagation algorithm?

42:58 What’s happening in the reinforcement learning space?

48:06 What is a convolutional neural network ?

49:08 What is a Neuron - the Machine Learning perspective

50:00 What is a neural network language model & how does it work?

58:00 The AI tree | LLMs

59:55 The next challenge of AI

1:01:40 - Pictures/ Videos - what's happening there?

01:03:20 LLM’s limited memory | Types of memory

01:04:45 AI’s path to human like learning

01:10:26 What is JEPA ?

01:11:58 How far in the future can you predict through JEPA ?

01:14:10 AI’s future prediction - Utopian or Dystopian ?

01:16:30 The LLM Loop | What needs to change

01:18:50 Building data centers in India - Yann’s thoughts

01:21:09 What should a 25 y/o build in the AI space? | Careers in the AI space

01:26:18 What should an investor invest in | Yann’s future prediction

01:29:13 What happens to human intelligence in an AI world?

01:32:09 What is intelligence? | Final Verdict

01:34:00 The end or just the beginning?