S3 E10 MacArthur Genius Prof Yejin Choi: Teaching AI Common Sense and Morality (Host: Pieter Abbeel)

What's in this episode:

00:00:00 Yejin Choi
00:01:13 sponsors: Index Ventures and Weights and Biases
00:02:21 limitations of ChatGPT / Large Language Models
00:05:32 ChatGPT's training and abilities
00:10:04 truth seeking pre-training
00:12:05 discovering mistakes of LLMs
00:14:15 is scaling up all that’s needed
00:17:05 the low compute regime
00:18:48 academia vs industry
00:21:42 inference time algorithms
00:27:15 power of high quality data
00:29:08 common sense
00:32:19 language as the best medium for reasoning
00:35:40 can machines learn morality
00:40:09 any benefits to smaller models
00:41:33 syntax, semantics, pragmatics
00:45:51 real-world applications
00:50:55 growing up and road to the AI profession
00:58:39 ways to relax


Guest links:
  / yejinchoinka  
https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~yejin/
https://www.ted.com/talks/yejin_choi_...


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Host: Pieter Abbeel -- https://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~pabbeel
Production: Bo Obradovic