Understanding AI from the nuts and bolts

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Brandon Rohrer who obtained his Ph.D from MIT is driven by understanding algorithms ALL the way down to their nuts and bolts, so he can make them accessible to everyone by first explaining them in the way HE himself would have wanted to learn! Please support us on Patreon for loads of exclusive content and private Discord: https://patreon.com/mlst (public discord) https://discord.gg/aNPkGUQtc5 https://twitter.com/MLStreetTalk Brandon's career has seen him in Principal-level roles at Microsoft and Facebook. An educator at heart, he also shares his knowledge through detailed tutorials, courses, and his forthcoming book, "How to Train Your Robot." Pod version: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/machinelearningstreettalk/episodes/Dr--Brandon-Rohrer---Robotics--Creativity-and-Intelligence-e2foau9 TOC: 00:00:00 - Intro to Brandon 00:01:48 - RLHF 00:02:22 - Limitations of transformers 00:08:36 - Agency - we are all GPTs 00:10:20 - BPE / representation bias 00:13:13 - LLM adherents - true believers 00:17:55 - Brandon's Teaching 00:21:03 - ML vs Real World / Robotics 00:31:12 - Reward shaping 00:38:21 - No true Scotsman - when do we accept capabilities as real 00:40:03 - Externalism 00:44:16 - Building flexible robots 00:46:50 - Is reward enough 00:55:43 - Optimisation curse 00:59:28 - Collective intelligence 01:03:04 - Intelligence, Creativity + ChatGPT 01:26:32 - Transformers Brandon's links: https://github.com/brohrer https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsBKTrp45lTfHa_p49I2AEQ https://www.linkedin.com/in/brohrer/ How transformers work: https://e2eml.school/transformers Brandon's End-to-End Machine Learning school courses, posts, and tutorials https://e2eml.school Free course: https://end-to-end-machine-learning.teachable.com/p/complete-course-library-full-end-to-end-machine-learning-catalog Blog: https://e2eml.school/blog.html Ziptie: Learning Useful Features [Brandon Rohrer] https://www.brandonrohrer.com/ziptie