Episode 5: Yejin Choi
Few people are better at explaining the science of artificial intelligence than Yejin Choi. She’s a computer science professor at the University of Washington, senior resource manager at the Allen Institute for AI, and the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship. I thought her recent TED talk was terrific, and I was thrilled to talk to her about how you train a large language model, why it’s so hard for robots to pick tools out of a box, and why universities must play a key role in the future of AI research.
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Episode 5: Yejin Choi
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<p>Few people are better at explaining the science of artificial intelligence than Yejin Choi. She’s a computer science professor at the University of Washington, senior resource manager at the Allen Institute for AI, and the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship. I thought her recent <a href="https://www.ted.com/talks/yejin_choi_why_ai_is_incredibly_smart_and_shockingly_stupid?language=en" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">TED talk</a> was terrific, and I was thrilled to talk to her about how you train a large language model, why it’s so hard for robots to pick tools out of a box, and why universities must play a key role in the future of AI research.</p>
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<li><p>Yejin’s TED talk: <a href="https://www.ted.com/talks/yejin_choi_why_ai_is_incredibly_smart_and_shockingly_stupid?language=en" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.ted.com/talks/yejin_choi_why_ai_is_incredibly_smart_and_shockingly_stupid?language=en</a></p></li>
<li><p>Moravec’s paradox: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moravec%27s_paradox" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moravec%27s_paradox</a></p></li>
<li><p>Virtual Insanity by Jamiroquai: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/24SUWisv2lYQiB3bVpE1sn?si=b290674d2791460d" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://open.spotify.com/track/24SUWisv2lYQiB3bVpE1sn?si=b290674d2791460d</a></p></li>
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