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

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This episode is sponsored by Notion. Learn more about Notion's Developer Platform today at can deep networks discover abstractions that shallow models miss? Statistical physicist Matthieu Wyart joins Tim Scarfe to argue...

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