#64 Prof. Gary Marcus 3.0

Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST)

Feb 24, 2022•52 min•Season 1Ep. 64

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We have a chat with Prof. Gary Marcus about everything which is currently top of mind for him, consciousness

[00:00:00] Gary intro

[00:01:25] Slightly conscious

[00:24:59] Abstract, compositional models

[00:32:46] Spline theory of NNs

[00:36:17] Self driving cars / algebraic reasoning

[00:39:43] Extrapolation

[00:44:15] Scaling laws

[00:49:50] Maximum likelihood estimation

References:

Grokking: Generalization Beyond Overfitting on Small Algorithmic Datasets

https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.02177

DEEP DOUBLE DESCENT: WHERE BIGGER MODELS AND MORE DATA HURT

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1912.02292.pdf

Bayesian Deep Learning and a Probabilistic Perspective of Generalization

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2002.08791.pdf

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