Episode · a16z Podcast · 2017-01-11
Books mentioned on a16z Podcast: Machine Intelligence, from University to Industry
From the significance of Google DeepMind's AlphaGo wins to recent advances in "expert-level artificial intelligence" in playing an imperfect/ asymmetric information game like poker, toys and games have played and continue to play a critical role in advancing machine intelligence.
Cameron Schuler discussed Reinforcement Learning by Richard S. Sutton and others. Frank Chen recommended Artificial Intelligence by Jerry Kaplan.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Reinforcement Learning
Reinforcement Learning by Richard S.
Discussed“And Rich Sutton, who's the father of reinforcement learning, he literally wrote the textbook. You can get the second version off his website even today.”
Where to get it
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Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence: What Everyone Needs to Know by Jerry Kaplan is an accessible introduction to the fundamentals and societal impacts of machine intelligence.
Recommended“And the book uh this is the not-so-shameless plug that I'd recommend for a general audience is a book called Artificial Intelligence What Everyone Needs to Know. It's written by Jerry Kaplan”
Where to get it
