Name: Does AI actually understand us?
Uploaded: 2023-03-30T14:46:00Z
Duration: 10 min 28 s
Description: Is AI as smart as it seems? Exploring the "brain" behind machine learning, neural networker Alona Fyshe delves into the language processing abilities of talkative tech (like the groundbreaking chatbot and internet obsession ChatGPT) and explains how different it is from your own brain -- even though it can sound convincingly human.

Is AI as smart as it seems? Exploring the "brain" behind machine learning, neural networker Alona Fyshe delves into the language processing abilities of talkative tech (like the groundbreaking chatbot and internet obsession ChatGPT) and explains how different it is from your own brain -- even though it can sound convincingly human.

Alona Fyshe: Does AI actually understand us?

Does AI actually understand us?

Exploring the thin line between AI's simulation of understanding and genuine comprehension, questioning if we're in a Clever Hans moment.

Introducing the Chinese Room argument to challenge AI's language understanding, posing a philosophical query on genuine comprehension.

Revealing that while AI can mimic understanding through 'scratch pad' predictions, the essence of true comprehension remains uniquely human.