๐Ÿ“š 6 Books mentioned in "Michael Littman: Reinforcement Learning and the Future of AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #144" of Lex Fridman Podcast

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Episode: Michael Littman: Reinforcement Learning and the Future of AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #144

Published on December 13, 2020

Hereโ€™s a list of all the books mentioned in this episode. Click on the links to watch specific excerpts on YouTube and feel free to purchase the books if they caught your interest!

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Exhalation

by Ted Chiang

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So one sci-fi book to recommend is exhalations by ted chang a bunch of short stories

Michael Littman recommends this sci-fi book (a collection of short stories) by Ted Chiang.

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Reinforcement Learning

by Rich Sutton

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i mean that's really surprising to me when i first read that and then enriched rich sutton's book on the matter

Lex Fridman mentions reading Rich Sutton's book about reinforcement learning algorithms.

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Stuart's Fancy Drinks and How to Mix Them

by Thomas Stuart

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I think I think stewart's book did a remarkably good job like a just a celebratory good job at describing ai technology and sort of how it works

Michael Littman praises Stuart Russell's book for its description of AI technology.

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Superintelligence

by Nick Bostrom

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so so as as i understand it that uh for example i read boston's book and a bunch of other reading material about this sort of general way of thinking about the world

Michael Littman mentions reading 'Boston's book' as part of understanding the superintelligence argument.

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The Alignment Problem

by Brian Christian

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currently i'm i'm reading uh the alignment problem actually by brian christian so i don't know if you've seen this out there yet

Michael Littman mentions currently reading this book by Brian Christian.

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The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy

by Douglas Adams

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so i when i turned 42 you may know from that's a that is a book i read um the the historical hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy that that is the meaning of life

Michael Littman references this book in the context of the number 42 and the meaning of life.

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