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 Processing 6. 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

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