Episode · Lex Fridman Podcast · 2020-08-14
Lex Fridman & Dileep George: books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #115
#115 – Dileep George: Brain-Inspired AI
Dileep George is a researcher at the intersection of neuroscience and artificial intelligence, co-founder of Vicarious, formerly co-founder of Numenta.
Lex Fridman discussed On Intelligence by Jeff Hawkins and others. Dileep George recommended Probabilistic reasoning in intelligent systems by Judea Pearl, The Book of Why by Judea Pearl and others, and The Mind's I by Douglas R. Hofstadter and others, and discussed Causality by Judea Pearl.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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On Intelligence
Discussed“is it all just building on top of each other in terms of the higher level ideas especially the ones jeff wrote about in the book if you if you blur out right you know yeah on intelligence right on intelligence if you if you blur out the details”
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Probabilistic reasoning in intelligent systems
Recommended“so i definitely liked uh judy apple's book uh probabilistic reasoning and intelligence systems it's um it's a very deep technical book but what i liked is that so there are many uh places where you can learn about probabilistic graphical models from”
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Causality
Discussed“and uh the second book causality so two thousand uh the one in two thousand that one is really hard so i wouldn't recommend that”
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The Book of Why
Recommended“uh the book of why is definitely more enjoyable oh for sure yeah”
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The Mind's I
Recommended“he had a book i think called it was called the mind's eye it was um uh probably half starter and daniel dennett together uh yeah so and i actually was uh i i bought that book so much i haven't read it yet”
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