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Yann LeCun: Dark Matter of Intelligence and Self-Supervised Learning | Lex Fridman Podcast
Yann LeCun is the Chief AI Scientist at Meta, professor at NYU, Turing Award winner, and one of the seminal researchers in the history of machine learning. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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Books and resources mentioned:
Self-supervised learning (article): https://bit.ly/3Aau1DQ
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OUTLINE:
0:00 - Introduction
0:36 - Self-supervised learning
10:55 - Vision vs language
16:46 - Statistics
22:33 - Three challenges of machine learning
28:22 - Chess
36:25 - Animals and intelligence
46:09 - Data augmentation
1:07:29 - Multimodal learning
1:19:18 - Consciousness
1:24:03 - Intrinsic vs learned ideas
1:28:15 - Fear of death
1:36:07 - Artificial Intelligence
1:49:56 - Facebook AI Research
2:06:34 - NeurIPS
2:22:46 - Complexity
2:31:11 - Music
2:36:06 - Advice for young people
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