#64 Prof. Gary Marcus 3.0

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We have a chat with Prof. Gary Marcus about everything which is currently top of mind for him, consciousness 

[00:00:00] Gary intro
[00:01:25] Slightly conscious
[00:24:59] Abstract, compositional models
[00:32:46] Spline theory of NNs
[00:36:17] Self driving cars / algebraic reasoning 
[00:39:43] Extrapolation
[00:44:15] Scaling laws
[00:49:50] Maximum likelihood estimation

References:
Grokking: Generalization Beyond Overfitting on Small Algorithmic Datasets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.02177

DEEP DOUBLE DESCENT: WHERE BIGGER MODELS AND MORE DATA HURT
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1912.02292.pdf

Bayesian Deep Learning and a Probabilistic Perspective of Generalization
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2002.08791.pdf