I really enjoyed this conversation with Tommy Poggio... from Einstein and time travel to the mystery of the visual cortex, compositionality of nature, neuroscience of ethics, and Flowers for Algernon.
@Hexanitrobenzene
3 жыл бұрын
My attempt at outlining this conversation at the granularity of questions. Note that sometimes professor's answer steered in a different direction than expected by the question, so entries in the outline are based on answers.
@darkswordsmith
3 жыл бұрын
Back in 2008 summer I was a freshman working in Prof. Poggio's lab at MIT. I was interested in AI but this was before the time of deep learning, the lab was working on object recognition system inspired by the visual pathway. I was tasked with building an image collection/labeling system (before the time of image net) to train the system...my supervisor told me after this first project I would start working on real AI stuff. I remember when Prof. Poggio coming into the office one day, he was kind and asked how I was doing. I had no idea how big of a deal he was (everyone was at MIT), and just made polite small talk. This is the conversation I wish I had back then with him. Then I would've stayed at the lab instead of leaving just before the cusp of deep learning, disillusioned by the tedious data collection process.
@TheShadyStudios
2 жыл бұрын
the more and more i watch lex’s interviews, the more i appreciate the insane amount of inspiration he generates
@penguinista
4 жыл бұрын
I would vote for a spoiler alert about "Flowers for Algernon" at
@alisheramantay
Жыл бұрын
You can tell Tomaso is an incredibly wise person because he admits he doesn't know, and most of the discussion was Tomaso going away from all kinds of speculations, he is a fact guy, he either knows or doesn't know. And for most of the metaphysical question he doesn't know what the answer is probably nobody knows.
@josy26
5 жыл бұрын
This was a fascinating conversation on many levels. I found Thomaso to be the ideal mentor I would like to have, openess, curiosity, ambition and fun in the journey of understanding and discovery. It would be great to have his points summarized, he shed some great light on a lot of questions. I specially enjoyed the ones on how we are beginning to understand NN, like the high probabilties of finding a global minima in a highly paramatrized model due to high number of prameters and the fact that hidden layers somehow solve the need for having N ^ Dimensions parameters in order to approximate the function, wasn't completely sure I understood if N was the error percentage boundary that you want or if 10 is a rule and 10% error was just a boundary. Anyway thanks to you both.
@kaleygoode1681
4 жыл бұрын
So wonderful to have an expert so openly admit they didn't know something... (right at the end) even while being bigged-up, and pause for deep thought. Respect 👍
@itsalljustimages
5 жыл бұрын
33:07
@ML-ph5bo
4 жыл бұрын
Another brilliant conversation. Thank you gentlemen. I think on these matters, and the conversations on this channel are resonating and fascinating.
@ardeshir1912
5 жыл бұрын
Amazing conversation with my hero Professor Poggio, great questions followed by thoughtful answers. With collective approach and minds across vast earth we will accelerate our understanding but as Prof. Poggio said, lets have an open mind and embrace the different ideas to have a chance solve the mystery. Fun and Curiosity. Thank you Lex for another great interview.
@arkoraa
5 жыл бұрын
Guest request: Demis Hassabis
@ayazpalekar1575
4 жыл бұрын
Cannot thank you enough for doing the podcasts that you do!
@tosvarsan5727
3 жыл бұрын
Loving to see such a nice conversation
@nzd_tv
5 жыл бұрын
It was a pleasure to watch this conversation. Agree with Tomaso on most points.
@PyMike
5 жыл бұрын
Such a great interview. Thank you so much!
@yacoubseyni9365
5 жыл бұрын
Poggio - the man, the myth, the legend himself 🙌!
@acobo
5 жыл бұрын
amazing interview, great questions, thankyou!
@philpilkington
5 жыл бұрын
Fascinating! Thank you for all your great interviews and videos.
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