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Lex Fridman
In this episode of the Lex Fridman Podcast, Vladimir Vapnik, a co-inventor of support vector machines and statistical learning theory, engages in a deep philosophical dialogue regarding the nature of reality and machine intelligence. The conversation begins with an exploration of instrumentalism ver …
Lex Fridman
In this conversation, Noam Chomsky addresses the possibility of establishing a universal communication protocol with an alien species, drawing on Marvin Minsky's experiments with simple Turing machines that demonstrated arithmetic as a baseline for intelligence. Chomsky argues that while human langu …