Explore a thought-provoking lecture by Stanford University Professor Chris Potts examining the potential for purely self-supervised foundation models to achieve grounded language understanding. Delve into topics including classical AI approaches, brain-mimicking systems, conceptions of semantics, and the challenges of behavioral testing for foundation models. Analyze the metaphysics and epistemology of understanding, and discover findings on causal abstraction in large networks. Gain insights into cutting-edge AI research and its implications for language comprehension and artificial intelligence development.