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Book · 2019 · Computers

Artificial Intelligence

A Guide for Thinking Humans

by Melanie Mitchell · Recommended by 1 person on 1 podcast

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“the name of your new book is artificial intelligence subtitle a guide for thinking humans”

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Passing
“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”
Passing
“...including her recent book simply called artificial intelligence a guide for thinking humans”
Own book
“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”
Own book
“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”
Own book
“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”
Own book
“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”
Own book
“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”
Own book
“i have a book called analogy making as perception which is a version of my PhD thesis on it”