S3 E1: Equipping AI with Higher Level Cognition and Creativity -- Guest: Turing Award Winner Yoshua Bengio (Host: Pieter Abbeel)

What's in this episode:
00:00:00 - Yoshua
00:01:40 - sponsors: Index Ventures, Weights and Biases
00:02:46 - language models -- from early neural models till LLMs today
00:08:43 - qualia: a subjective experience, it's the word embeddings!
00:14:30 - will just scaling up be enough?
00:17:40 - escaping the need for very large data
00:20:05 - higher-level cognition, attention, working memory, conscious thinking, causality
00:32:25 - smart animals who don't have language, evolution favoring reasoning
00:36:04 - line between conscious level and unconscious level, attention in the brain
00:48:38 - gflow networks
01:02:31 - impact of AI: discovering new cures, responsible AI
01:17:50 - brain is more creative when walking
01:20:04 - Yoshua: from kid to AI pioneer, importance of collaboration, confidence, freedom, asking "why?"

Links:
https://yoshuabengio.org/
https://www.indexventures.com/
https://wandb.ai/site

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Host: Pieter Abbeel
Production: Bo Obradovic