I25: C. I. Nikolenko | AI, language models, machine learning, neural networks, study In Russia

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00:00 Greetings
00:12 How did you end up in the field of artificial intelligence development?
01:47 Do you apply the maths you learnt at university in your work?
02:11 Can artificial intelligence replace maths?
02:41 Is artificial intelligence a promising direction?
02.50 Can we influence the development of OpenAI being far away from the epicentre of development?
05:06 Was the emergence of ChatGPT a surprise to you?
05:53 Is ChatGPT just looking for the next word after what you've already seen in the text?
14:01 We were using language models 10 years ago, but the breakthrough came with ChatGPT?
18:23 There's a theory that a language model crosses a certain threshold in the number of parameters and becomes a thinking entity. Doesn't that sound like human evolution to you?
20:16 In 10-15 years, what will be after large language models?
22:05 What if artificial intelligence creates an even more powerful artificial intelligence that creates a time machine?
23:24 What are the benefits of artificial intelligence of enormous power?
24:33 Is the future in integrating biology with artificial intelligence?
27:51 Do you think man is a big language model or is there still something supernatural about him?
29:44 Why does a language model give different answers for the same input data?
32:30 Would you recommend students choose maths now?
33:44 Do you agree that because of the existence of large language models from large corporations, development specialists will not be needed?
35:07 Do you agree that investors are not interested in developing artificial intelligence right now, but are happy to support the use of off-the-shelf large language models?
38:01 What is more interesting and financially profitable - teaching or research?
41:49 What are the problems in Russian education?
43:20 Why don't Russian researchers tend to publish at international conferences?
45:23 The Russian news suggests ignoring international conferences, how do you feel about this?
46:34 Do you support the idea of the importance of evaluating a scientist through objective metrics such as the Hirsch index?
48:25 How do you evaluate your scholarly activity?
49:40 How do you publish your textbook?
53:47 Isn't it scary to write something wrong in your textbook?
56:44 Do you believe that self-driving cars will appear on the roads?
57:39 How do you generally feel about computers replacing humans?
01:00:19 Robots will generate electricity, replace humans in everything and humans will no longer be needed?
01:04:37 Isn't it hard to imagine machines gaining power over humanity?
01:09:22 Have students become smarter with the advent of ChatGPT?
01:11:42 What do you think? Should students be praised or criticised more?
01:15:33 What is the mission of a teacher? To scold, praise, or explain?