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On “Ask HN: What’s your favorite talk from 2017?”
Ali Rahimi's NIPS 2017 Test of Time award talk. "Artificial intelligence is not like electricity (quoting Andrew Ng), but alchemy" link to this video
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Ali Rahimi's talk at NIPS(NIPS 2017 Test-of-time award presentation)
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- Recommended by 3 people: 3 on Hacker News.
- A classic. People kept recommending it from 2018 to 2023.
- Presented by Ali Rahimi, AI researcher
- May be out of date. Uploaded 8 years ago, in an area where tools change fast.
- An opinion. It argues one side of a question engineers disagree on.
Intermediate. Assumes working knowledge.
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Ali Rahimi argues that modern machine learning has become akin to alchemy, calling for more scientific rigor and foundational understanding in the field.
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3 people recommend thisWhat people say. Highly recommended as a landmark critique of the lack of theoretical rigor in modern deep learning.
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…nations. For a more cutting and insightful critique, watch Ali Rahimi's short talk at NIPS 2017 (where he was presenting for a paper that won the "Test of time" award, for standing out in value a decade after publication). The standing ovation he received at the end indicate that his comments resonated with a significant fraction of the attendees. link to this video Here's a teaser from the talk: "How many of you have devised a deep neural net from scratch, architecture and all, and trained it from the ground up, and when it didn't work, felt bad about yourself, like you did something wrong? This happens to me about every three months, and let me tell you, I don't think it's you ... I think it's grad…
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>In no way can I believe that the corporation doesn’t have a good understanding of exactly how it can manipulate the AI systems it leverages to achieve its goals. See this talk which compares modern AI work to alchemy (i.e. it works, unreliably, and we don't always know why): link to this video
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On “The Humans Building AI Scientists”
…and I'm working on trying ambitious ideas I have to try to upend the current paradigm of training on big data, which is truly insane (by age 4 the most erudite of children have probably only been exposed to 45 million words 2 and yet exhibit vastly more understanding and fluency than any language model trained on a similar amount of data). 1: link to this video 2: link…