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I’ve been doing just fine ignoring AI altogether and focusing on my thing. I only have one life. Fridman had a guy on his podcast a while ago, I don’t remember his name, but he studies human languages, and the way he put it was the best summary of the actual capabilities I’ve heard so far. Very refreshing.

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Who was that?

Could it be Edward Gibson [1]?

> I work on all aspects of human language: the words, the structures, across lots of languages. I mostly works [sic] with behavioral data: what people say, and how they perform in simple experiments.

(I find it ironic to see a grammatical error in his bio. Probably because of a mass find/replace from "He" to "I" but still...)

[1] http://tedlab.mit.edu/ted.html

I think #426

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