📚 8 Books mentioned in "Rodney Brooks: Robotics | Lex Fridman Podcast #217" of Lex Fridman Podcast

and so marvin minsky very well known in ai but also a fantastic mathematician uh in his book finite and infinite machines from the mid 60s which is a beautiful beautiful mathematical book

Rodney Brooks mentions Marvin Minsky's book and describes it as a beautiful mathematical book about computation.

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how and why wonder books um how am i on the book of electricity and how i won the book of giant brains and robots

Rodney Brooks mentions this series of books he read as a child that influenced his interest in robotics.

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and now let me leave you with the three laws of robotics from isaac asimov

Lex Fridman concludes the podcast by mentioning Isaac Asimov and his three laws of robotics, which are well-known from his books.

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in fact i'm halfway through a i think it'll be about a 480 page book um titled the working title is not even wrong

Rodney Brooks mentions the working title of his own book that he is currently writing.

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uh i i should have asked marvin why he he and seymour pappet came down so hard on neural networks in 1968 in their book perceptrons

Rodney Brooks mentions Minsky and Papert's book 'Perceptrons' and its negative impact on the field of neural networks.

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um how am i on the book of electricity and how i won the book of giant brains and robots

Rodney Brooks mentions this specific book title from the 'How and Why Wonder Books' series that he read as a child, sparking his interest in robots.

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and donald knuth uh in his first volume of his you know art of computer programming in around 1968 says well what's computation

Rodney Brooks mentions Donald Knuth's book in the context of how computation was defined.

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how and why wonder books um how am i on the book of electricity and how i won the book of giant brains and robots

Rodney Brooks mentions this series of books he read as a child that influenced his interest in robotics.

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