Episode · Lex Fridman Podcast · 2019-12-28
Lex Fridman & Melanie Mitchell: books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast
Melanie Mitchell: Concepts, Analogies, Common Sense & Future of AI
Melanie Mitchell is a professor of computer science at Portland State University and an external professor at Santa Fe Institute.
Lex Fridman discussed Artificial Intelligence by Melanie Mitchell. Melanie Mitchell recommended Fluid Concepts And Creative Analogies by Douglas R. Hofstadter and others, and discussed Human Compatible by Stuart Russell.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Artificial Intelligence
Discussed“the name of your new book is artificial intelligence subtitle a guide for thinking humans”
Where to get it
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Human Compatible
Discussed“so it was spurred by a earlier New York Times op-ed by Stewart Russell which was summarizing his book called human compatible”
Where to get it
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Fluid Concepts And Creative Analogies
Recommended“so that that there's a Douglas Hofstadter's book called fluid concepts and creative analogies talks in great detail about copycat”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (11) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing Artificial Intelligence
“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 Artificial Intelligence
“...including her recent book simply called artificial intelligence a guide for thinking humans”
Speaker Melanie Mitchell: Concepts, Analogies, Common Sense & Future of AI 2019-12-28 Listen at 0:17
Plugged Artificial Intelligence
“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”
Plugged Artificial Intelligence
“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”
Plugged Artificial Intelligence
“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”
Plugged Artificial Intelligence
“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”
Plugged Artificial Intelligence
“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”
Passing Surfaces and Essences
“douglas hofstadter author of get olestra bach was your PhD adviser”
Plugged Artificial Intelligence
“i have a book called analogy making as perception which is a version of my PhD thesis on it”
Plugged Analogy-making as Perception
“I have a book called analogy making as perception which is a version of my PhD thesis on it”
Plugged Analogy-making as Perception
“i have a book called analogy making as perception which is a version of my PhD thesis on it”