Uploaded October 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Do we really understand how AI works? Can AI teach grandmasters new tricks?

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This time BuzzRobot spoke with Been Kim, senior staff research scientist at Google DeepMind, about interpreting and understanding machines and what cutting-edge research is being conducted to better understand emerging behavior of AI.

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We Can't Understand AI Using our Existing Vocabulary research: arxiv.org/abs/2502.07586

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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:18 AI teaches grandmasters chess
05:30 AI neologisms
10:17 Extracting knowledge from machines
13:43 Interpretability research
17:19 Are we keeping up with AI progress
18:34 New AI related terms
20:26 The right direction for interpretability
23:35 AI lying
27:49 Conseptual maps
30:30 AI researchers bias
33:33 Generalizing AI teaching humans
35:11 Is AI sentient
36:04 Does AI has concepts
41:53 Progress in machine understanding