#120 – François Chollet: Measures of Intelligence
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Lex Fridman
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🗓️ 31 August 2020
⏱️ 155 minutes
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Summary
François Chollet is an AI researcher at Google and creator of Keras.
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Francois’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/fchollet
Francois’s Website: https://fchollet.com/
On the Measure of Intelligence (paper): https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.01547
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OUTLINE:
00:00 – Introduction
05:04 – Early influence
06:23 – Language
12:50 – Thinking with mind maps
23:42 – Definition of intelligence
42:24 – GPT-3
53:07 – Semantic web
57:22 – Autonomous driving
1:09:30 – Tests of intelligence
1:13:59 – Tests of human intelligence
1:27:18 – IQ tests
1:35:59 – ARC Challenge
1:59:11 – Generalization
2:09:50 – Turing Test
2:20:44 – Hutter prize
2:27:44 – Meaning of life
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| 0:00.0 | The following is a conversation with Francois Chalet, his second time in the podcast. |
| 0:05.5 | He's both a world-class engineer and a philosopher in the realm of deep learning and artificial |
| 0:12.1 | intelligence. |
| 0:13.3 | This time, we talk a lot about his paper titled on the measure of intelligence that discusses |
| 0:19.0 | how we may define and measure general intelligence in our computing machinery. |
| 0:24.8 | Quick summary of the sponsors. |
| 0:26.4 | Babel, Masterclass, and CashApp. |
| 0:29.6 | Take this sponsor links in the description to get a discount and to support this podcast. |
| 0:34.6 | As a side note, let me say that the serious, rigorous, scientific study of artificial |
| 0:39.3 | general intelligence is a rare thing. |
| 0:42.2 | The mainstream machine learning community works on very narrow AI with very narrow benchmarks. |
| 0:47.8 | This is very good for incremental and sometimes big incremental progress. |
| 0:53.3 | On the other hand, the outside the mainstream, Renegade, you could say, AGI community works |
| 0:59.9 | on approaches that verge on the philosophical and even the literary with a big public |
| 1:05.8 | benchmarks. |
| 1:07.5 | Walk in the line between the two worlds is a rare breed, but it doesn't have to be. |
| 1:12.3 | I run the AGI series at MIT as an attempt to inspire more people to walk this line. |
| 1:17.8 | Deep-mind and open AI for time and still on occasion walk this line. |
| 1:23.2 | Transwashed LA does as well. |
| 1:25.8 | I hope to also. |
| 1:27.7 | It's a beautiful dream to work towards and to make real one day. |
| 1:32.4 | If you enjoy this thing, subscribe on YouTube, review it with 5,000 Apple podcasts, follow |
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