#65 Prof. PEDRO DOMINGOS [Unplugged]

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Note: there are no politics discussed in this show and please do not interpret this show as any kind of a political statement from us. We have decided not to discuss politics on MLST anymore due to its divisive nature. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mlst Discord: https://discord.gg/HNnAwSduud [00:00:00] Intro [00:01:36] What we all need to understand about machine learning [00:06:05] The Master Algorithm Target Audience [00:09:50] Deeply Connected Algorithms seen from Divergent Frames of Reference [00:12:49] There is a Master Algorithm; and it's mine! [00:14:59] The Tribe of Evolution [00:17:17] Biological Inspirations and Predictive Coding [00:22:09] Shoe-Horning Gradient Descent [00:27:12] Sparsity at Training Time vs Prediction Time [00:30:00] World Models and Predictive Coding [00:33:24] The Cartoons of System 1 and System 2 [00:40:37] AlphaGo Searching vs Learning [00:45:56] Discriminative Models evolve into Generative Models [00:50:36] Generative Models, Predictive Coding, GFlowNets [00:55:50] Sympathy for a Thousand Brains [00:59:05] A Spectrum of Tribes [01:04:29] Causal Structure and Modelling [01:09:39] Entropy and The Duality of Past vs Future, Knowledge vs Control [01:16:14] A Discrete Universe? [01:19:49] And yet continuous models work so well [01:23:31] Finding a Discretised Theory of Everything

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