Hannah explores the potential of language models, the questions they raise, and if teaching a computer about language is enough to create artificial general intelligence (AGI). Beyond helping us communicate ideas, language plays a crucial role in memory, cooperation, and thinking – which is why AI researchers have long aimed to communicate with computers using natural language. Recently, there has been extraordinary progress using large-language models (LLM), which learn how to speak by processing huge amounts of data from the internet. The results can be very convincing, but pose significant ethical challenges.
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Interviewees: DeepMind’s Geoffrey Irving, Chris Dyer, Angeliki Lazaridou, Lisa-Anne Hendriks & Laura Weidinger
Credits
Presenter: Hannah Fry
Series Producer: Dan Hardoon
Production support: Jill Achineku
Sounds design: Emma Barnaby
Music composition: Eleni Shaw
Sound Engineer: Nigel Appleton
Editor: David Prest
Commissioned by DeepMind
Thank you to everyone who made this season possible!
Further reading:
GPT-3 Powers the Next Generation of Apps, OpenAI:
Never Mind the Computer 1983 about the ELIZA program, BBC:
How Large Language Models Will Transform Science, Society, and AI, Stanford University:
Challenges in Detoxifying Language Models, DeepMind:
Extending Machine Language Models toward Human-Level Language Understanding, DeepMind:
Language modelling at scale, DeepMind:
Artificial general intelligence, Technology Review:
A Definition of Machine Intelligence by Shane Legg, arXiv:
Stuart Russell – Living With Artificial Intelligence, BBC:
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