Yoshua Bengio
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first heard Oct 2018
last heard 7 May
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They don't change.
And so even though the distribution of the data may change because things happen in the world and things will look different on the surface, the underlying...
scientific explanations for how things are, are the same.
And if you can train your system so that it is encouraged to discover these explanations, and the system also understands the notion of intervention.
So in other words, when somebody does something in the world, it can change the distribution, but it doesn't change the mechanisms, the underlying laws of physics.
when your model is able to make those distinctions, then it's going to be much more robust to changes in distribution, which is the hard question for neural nets and machine learning in general, that for now we don't have good answers to.
And in the world of safety, this is a real issue, right?
We would really like our guardrails to be robust to the fact that the world is going to change, the distribution of the data is going to change.
They're going to be asked questions that are very, very different from what they've been trained on.
And so having systems that can generalize better out of distribution because they kind of understand the causal structure would be a huge plus.
No.
No, okay.
because we don't have enough ground truth about what's really happening in the world.
I mean, there's like scientific data and evidence, but...
Yeah, the scientist AI would use mostly the communication acts, like what people say, as a source of information about people and society.
And that is a very rich source of information.
The problem is you can't just believe what people say and repeat it.
Current LLMs, if they see very, very often repeated something false, like the earth is flat, if it was repeated enough, they would start saying it, right?
I mean, there's like other examples, but by and large, they reject conspiracy theories that... I mean, if they understand conspiracy theories and they are not playing the persona of a person saying it,
you're right, but there's lots of other evidence, not for conspiracy theories, but all kinds of biases.
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