Episode
Peter Norvig: Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
1:03:22
Published: Mon Sep 30 2019
Description
Peter Norvig is a research director at Google and the co-author with Stuart Russell of the book Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach that educated and inspired a whole generation of researchers including myself to get into the field. This conversation is part of the Artificial Intelligence podcast. If you would like to get more information about this podcast go to https://lexfridman.com/ai or connect with @lexfridman on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Medium, or YouTube where you can watch the video versions of these conversations. If you enjoy the podcast, please rate it 5 stars on iTunes or support it on Patreon. Here's the outline with timestamps for this episode (on some players you can click on the timestamp to jump to that point in the episode): 00:00 - Introduction 00:37 - Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach 09:11 - Covering the entire field of AI 15:42 - Expert systems and knowledge representation 18:31 - Explainable AI 23:15 - Trust 25:47 - Education - Intro to AI - MOOC 32:43 - Learning to program in 10 years 37:12 - Changing nature of mastery 40:01 - Code review 41:17 - How have you changed as a programmer 43:05 - LISP 47:41 - Python 48:32 - Early days of Google Search 53:24 - What does it take to build human-level intelligence 55:14 - Her 57:00 - Test of intelligence 58:41 - Future threats from AI 1:00:58 - Exciting open problems in AI
Chapters
Director of research at Google, Peter Norvig discusses the changes that have occurred in AI over the years, and how he and his co-author, Stuart Russell have adapted their textbook series, Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, to reflect this.
00:00 - 03:12 (03:12)
Summary
Director of research at Google, Peter Norvig discusses the changes that have occurred in AI over the years, and how he and his co-author, Stuart Russell have adapted their textbook series, Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, to reflect this.
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Sam Corbett-Davies, Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, discusses the nuances of artificial intelligence and fairness, including the issues of creating equal protected classes and optimizing for long-term improvement rather than short-term reward.
03:12 - 09:03 (05:51)
Summary
Sam Corbett-Davies, Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, discusses the nuances of artificial intelligence and fairness, including the issues of creating equal protected classes and optimizing for long-term improvement rather than short-term reward.
EpisodePeter Norvig: Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
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The process of writing the "Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach" book is discussed, from the undertaking of covering an entire field to the decision to take a different approach to knowledge engineering.
09:03 - 12:37 (03:34)
Summary
The process of writing the "Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach" book is discussed, from the undertaking of covering an entire field to the decision to take a different approach to knowledge engineering.
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The idea of representation and reasoning is crucial in the development of trustworthy and explainable AI, as sometimes there isn't enough data to learn from scratch, and we want to understand where these systems work and where they don't.
12:37 - 21:55 (09:17)
Summary
The idea of representation and reasoning is crucial in the development of trustworthy and explainable AI, as sometimes there isn't enough data to learn from scratch, and we want to understand where these systems work and where they don't.
EpisodePeter Norvig: Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
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The way we perceive the abilities of robots may be limited by our low dimensional metaphors.
21:55 - 25:11 (03:16)
Summary
The way we perceive the abilities of robots may be limited by our low dimensional metaphors. Just like how humans learn to trust each other quickly in public spaces, we could also learn to trust robots with certain tasks if we change our perception.
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Google focuses on finding and recruiting problem solvers who can analyze problems, think of solutions, make models, test them, and verify results.
25:11 - 40:42 (15:31)
Summary
Google focuses on finding and recruiting problem solvers who can analyze problems, think of solutions, make models, test them, and verify results. They consider the ability to write code as important but not the primary factor.
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Paul Ford and Gina Trapani discuss how they have evolved as programmers over the years, from reading the manual, understanding the core syntax and language design, to being flexible and future-proofing their code.
40:42 - 45:38 (04:55)
Summary
Paul Ford and Gina Trapani discuss how they have evolved as programmers over the years, from reading the manual, understanding the core syntax and language design, to being flexible and future-proofing their code.
EpisodePeter Norvig: Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
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The host and guest discuss the process of selecting the best programming language for artificial intelligence and the importance of considering factors like ease of use and relevance to the field.
45:38 - 51:04 (05:26)
Summary
The host and guest discuss the process of selecting the best programming language for artificial intelligence and the importance of considering factors like ease of use and relevance to the field.
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The podcast discusses the future of AI and what it might take to achieve human level intelligence.
51:04 - 1:01:31 (10:26)
Summary
The podcast discusses the future of AI and what it might take to achieve human level intelligence. They also touch on the issue of income inequality and how it is currently affecting people.
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The host discusses the importance of programming tools, such as bug fix bases, and mentions their interest in current systems like TensorFlow for machine learning.
1:01:31 - 1:03:10 (01:38)
Summary
The host discusses the importance of programming tools, such as bug fix bases, and mentions their interest in current systems like TensorFlow for machine learning.