Book · 2019 · Computers
Artificial Intelligence
A Guide for Thinking Humans
Artificial Intelligence by Melanie Mitchell has been mentioned in 2 episodes across 2 podcasts (1 episode recommends it and 1 episode discusses it), through . Most frequently brought up by Russ Roberts (1 episode) and Lex Fridman (1 episode) on EconTalk (1 episode) and Lex Fridman Podcast (1 episode).
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Our book is artificial intelligence Melanie thanks for being part of econ talk.
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The name of your new book is artificial intelligence subtitle a guide for thinking humans.
Lex Fridman Lex Fridman Podcast · Dec 2019 Why people recommend it
Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans by Melanie Mitchell offers a comprehensive examination of artificial intelligence, separating current technological achievements from science fiction hype while exploring how algorithms learn and perceive the world. On an episode of EconTalk, host Russ Roberts welcomed the author and concluded their discussion by explicitly plugging the book, thanking Mitchell for her appearance and highlighting the title for his listeners. Earlier, on an episode of the Lex Fridman Podcast, host Lex Fridman engaged directly with Mitchell about the project, specifically bringing up the full title to contextualize their conversation regarding machine learning, concepts, analogies, and common sense in AI systems. Both podcast appearances served to promote Mitchell's work as a vital resource for anyone attempting to navigate the rapidly shifting technological landscape. The hosts treated the book as an authoritative guide for general readers looking to understand the mechanics behind modern computational intelligence without getting bogged down in overly technical jargon. Through these thoughtful discussions, the podcast hosts helped direct their audiences toward a clearer, more grounded understanding of what artificial intelligence actually is and where the field is heading in the future.
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Russ Roberts our book is artificial intelligence Melanie thanks for being part of econ talk 1
“our book is artificial intelligence Melanie thanks for being part of econ talk”
Lex Fridman the name of your new book is artificial intelligence subtitle a guide for thinking humans 1
“the name of your new book is artificial intelligence subtitle a guide for thinking humans”
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“her latest book in the subject of today's episode is artificial intelligence a guide for thinking humans”
“from her doctoral work with her advisers Douglas Hofstadter and John Holland - today she has contributed a lot of important ideas to the field of AI including her recent book simply called artificial intelligence a guide for thinking humans”
“...including her recent book simply called artificial intelligence a guide for thinking humans”
“so in the book I talk about my former PhD advisor Douglas Hofstadter who encountered a music generation program and that was really the line for him that if a machine could create beautiful music that would be terrifying for him”
“which I like because it's a it's a nice way to to sort of it's a nice unit for prediction and it's like that many fantastic discoveries have to be made”
“but and there's some fundamental weaknesses that they have that I talked about in the book that that just comes from this approach of supervised learning”
“one thing that surprised me when I was writing the book is how far apart different people are in the field are artisan their opinion of how how far the field has come”
“so so one example here's an example i had in the book that that i think is useful to me at least in thinking about this”
“i have a book called analogy making as perception which is a version of my PhD thesis on it”