Does AI actually understand us? | Alona Fyshe

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🗓️ 30 March 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Is AI as smart as it seems? Exploring the "brain" behind machine learning, neural networker Alona Fyshe delves into the language processing abilities of talkative tech (like the groundbreaking chatbot and internet obsession ChatGPT) and explains how different it is from your own brain -- even though it can sound convincingly human.

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0:13.7	We're at a moment when emergent AI technology is expanding so fast.
0:18.0	You've seen it.
0:19.0	AI language models are trained on a huge library of books and human-generated text, and
0:24.2	as AI trains itself, is it acting more like a human brain?
0:28.2	Understanding language like we do?
0:31.5	That's what neural networker Alana Fish explores in her 2023 talk from Ted at Destination
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