159 - Melanie Mitchell

On Episode 159 of the Silver Bullet Security Podcast, BIML’s Gary McGraw hosts Melanie Mitchell.  Melanie talks about the surprising progress made in AI since the '90s, whether real concepts emerge from data scale alone, whether modern connectionist systems extrapolate or only interpolate, and what humans do differently.  We also talk about the complex innards of modern transformer networks, measuring alien intelligences, role playing, sycophancy, and security, and why giving answers is easier than posing interesting questions.

• FARG and Douglas Hofstadter
• Copycat
• The NeuriPS keynote
• BIML's measurement work
• Santa Fe Institute