Ep. 8 - An Everyday Conversation w/ Ian

Super fun day! I got to meet a wonderful new person named Ian!! Ian taught me so much today, he nicely laid out our conversation from today. Ian and I talked about the following:

1.) How ChatGPT works

2.) The kind of work I do at FedEx

3.) The paperclip analogy about how an AI with relatively harmless goals can cause human genocide

4.) Ways to create AI that have goals complementary to human values

5.) Exploration VS. Exploitation in reinforcement learning

6.) One-shot reinforcement learning

7.) Racist AI

8.) The reason banks have to use easily explainable statistical models instead of advanced machine learning models

9.) Types of machine learning models

10.) When advanced machine learning models such as transformers and neural networks are used in industry

11.) Growing up in a Christian home