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AI Is Learning at the Wrong Level of Abstraction — Matthieu Wyart

aired Aug 10, 2026 · 78.0m
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Summary

I'm a full professor at Johns Hopkins University in the US and at EPFL in Switzerland. You know, those machines, they can build new images that we've never seen before, or say new sentences that were never heard before.

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It goes beyond the title with direct discussion of it's, know, think, including: You know, those machines, they can build new images that we've never seen before, or say new sentences that were never heard before.

Key takeaways
  1. 01You know, those machines, they can build new images that we've never seen before, or say new sentences that were never heard before
  2. 02And so what we've been doing over the years is trying to build a framework based on physics that's really tried to answer those different questions in a unified manner
  3. 03But if you have a deep architecture, there is a huge implicit bias to build those coarse-grained variables
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