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Jul 10
53m 6s

Understanding the inner thoughts of AI

Hannah Fry
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What if you were to peer inside the ‘mind’ of AI? You wouldn't find fully formed thoughts, just vast arrays of numbers. In this episode, Professor Hannah Fry is joined by Neel Nanda, to shine a light on an ongoing open area of research, interpretability. 
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