# Does AI actually understand us?

- Institution: TED
- Department: TED@DestinationCanada
- Speaker: Alona Fyshe
- Year: 2023
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Computer science, Languages and linguistics
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/alona_fyshe_does_ai_actually_understand_us)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Is AI as smart as it seems? Exploring the "brain" behind machine learning, neural networker Alona Fyshe delves into the language processing abilities of talkative tech (like the groundbreaking chatbot and internet obsession ChatGPT) and explains how different it is from your own brain -- even though it can sound convincingly human.

## Lectures

1. [Does AI actually understand us?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/alona_fyshe_does_ai_actually_understand_us/d3188a61654d), 11 min (TED's player)