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Episode · Lex Fridman Podcast · 2019-03-12

Lex Fridman & Leslie Kaelbling: books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast

Leslie Kaelbling: Reinforcement Learning, Planning, and Robotics

2 books · With Leslie Kaelbling · Listen · Watch on YouTube

Leslie Kaelbling is a roboticist and professor at MIT. She is recognized for her work in reinforcement learning, planning, robot navigation, and several other topics in AI.

Leslie Kaelbling discussed Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas R. Hofstadter and Surfaces and Essences by Douglas Hofstadter and others.

Books mentioned, in the order they came up

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  1. Gödel, Escher, Bach

    Douglas R. Hofstadter · at 0:40

    Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter is an intellectually dense exploration of mathematics, art, philosophy, and artificial intelligence through the works of Kurt Gödel, M.C. Escher, and J.S. Bach.

    Discussed
    “I can say that is I read girdle eer Bach when I was in high school that was pretty formative for me because it exposed uh the interestingness of Primitives and combination and how you can make complex things out of simple parts and ideas of AI”
    Leslie Kaelbling Leslie Kaelbling: Reinforcement Learning, Planning, and Robotics 2019-03-12 Listen at 0:40
    Where to get it
    Listen free with an Audible trialAmazon

  2. Surfaces and Essences

    Douglas Hofstadter, Emmanuel Sander · at 0:40

    Surfaces and Essences by Douglas Hofstadter and Emmanuel Sander is a profound exploration of concepts, categorization, and the fundamental cognitive mechanisms of human thought.

    Discussed
    “I can say that is I read girdle eer Bach when I was in high school that was pretty formative for me because it exposed uh the interestingness of Primitives and combination and how you can make complex things out of simple parts and ideas of AI”
    Leslie Kaelbling Leslie Kaelbling: Reinforcement Learning, Planning, and Robotics 2019-03-12 Listen at 0:40
    Where to get it
    Listen free with an Audible trialAmazon
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