What separates fluency from understanding? Léon Bottou joins Vasant Dhar in Episode 103, Brave New World, to explore the deep question at the heart of AI.

Useful Resources:

1. Léon Bottou
2. Léon Bottou - The Fiction Machine
3. Hopfield Network in AI
4. Yann LeCun
5. J. L. McClelland, D.E. Rumelhart and G.E. Hinton - The Appeal of Parallel Distributed Processing
6. Claude Shannon - Entropy and Redundancy in English
7. Marvin Minsky - Music, Mind and Meaning
8. Stafford Beer
9. Navier-Stokes Equations
10. Terry Sejnowski - Parallel Networks that Learn to Pronounce English Text
11. Christopher D. Manning
12. Brave New World Episode 58: Sam Bowman on ChatGPT & Controlling AI
13. De Morgan's laws

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