Understanding Artificial Intelligence (Robert Wright & Timothy B. Lee)

Robert Wright's Nonzero

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🗓️ 5 September 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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0:33 Tim’s article explaining large language models 03:23 Do LLMs reverse engineer the human mind? 11:24 GPT’s mesmerizing emergent properties 17:43 The ‘T’ in Chat-GPT 30:33 How AI models evolve during training 41:59 Human intelligence compared to artificial intelligence 49:10 Heading to Overtime

Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero, Why Buddhism Is True) and Timothy B. Lee (Full Stack Economics, Understanding AI). Recorded August 16, 2023.

Tim's Substack newsletter: understandingAI.org

Twitter: https://twitter.com/NonzeroPods

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0:00.0	Your List of You're listening to Robert Wright's Non-Zero Podcast.
0:33.1	Hi, Tim.
0:34.5	Hey, Bob.
0:35.5	How you doing?
0:36.5	I'm doing great.
0:37.2	How are you? I'm doing doing great. How are you?
0:38.3	I'm doing just fine.
0:40.7	Let me introduce this.
0:41.8	I'm Robert Wright, publisher of the Non-Zero Newsletter.
0:44.6	This is the Non-Zero Podcast.
0:47.4	You're Timothy B. Lee, publisher of the Understanding AI newsletter.
0:53.5	And we're going to talk about artificial intelligence.
0:55.8	And we're going to start up by talking about a piece in your newsletter that got a lot of favorable attention.
1:02.3	A lot of likes.
1:03.1	Is this a record for likes?
1:04.8	You were in the hundreds.
1:05.5	You had three figures in the likes department.
1:08.2	Is that a record for this newsletter?
1:10.3	Yes, I think so. Yeah, I got 200 and some. And yeah, I've got a lot of people, like, 100,000, 200,000 people about it read it.
1:20.3	So, yeah. Really? Whoa, that's big. That's big. Yeah. Congratulations.
1:25.6	Thank you. And now it's our job to explain to people why this is.
1:30.8	What the conveyed of them, the vast illumination that is also conveyed by this piece, which
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