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On the Measure of Intelligence

Francois Chollet

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This book by Francois Chollet has come up 2 times on Lex Fridman. One of those mentions was a genuine on-air recommendation, not just a passing reference. The people who brought it up: Lex Fridman. The earliest mention we indexed is from 2020-04-27 and the most recent from 2020-08-31. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.

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François Chollet: Measures of Intelligence | Lex Fridman Podcast #120

“let's get into your paper on the measure of intelligence that uh did you put on 2019 yes okay yeah november”— Lex Fridman

The guest here is Francois Chollet: Deep learning engineer and AI researcher at Google, creator of the Keras library and author of the paper 'On the Measure of Intelligence' and the ARC challenge. Francois Chollet argues intelligence is the efficiency of acquiring new skills, not skill itself, and explains his ARC test for it.

00:23:292020-08-31
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Turing Test: Can Machines Think?

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“here's just a couple of example of priors that Francois shows in his paper I recommend highly it called on the measure of intelligence”— Lex Fridman

The guest here is Lex Fridman: AI researcher and host of the Lex Fridman Podcast. Here he presents solo, kicking off an AI paper reading club with Turing's foundational paper. Lex Fridman dissects Turing's 1950 paper, its nine objections, and rival benchmarks to ask whether machines can truly think.

00:44:572020-04-27